{"id":2058,"date":"2026-08-21T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:34:00","slug":"only-the-english-could-have-invented-this-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/only-the-english-could-have-invented-this-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Only the English Could Have Invented This Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,<br \/>\nBut the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.<br \/>\nOne fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,<br \/>\nYet the plural of moose should never be meese.<br \/>\nYou may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,<br \/>\nYet the plural of house is houses, not hice.<\/p>\n<p>If the plural of man is always called men,<br \/>\nThen shouldn&#8217;t the plural of pan be called pen?<br \/>\nIf I speak of my foot and show you my feet,<br \/>\nAnd I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?<br \/>\nIf one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,<br \/>\nWhy shouldn&#8217;t the plural of booth be called beeth?<\/p>\n<p>Then one may be that, and three would be those,<br \/>\nYet hat in the plural would never be hose,<br \/>\nAnd the plural of cat is cats, not cose.<br \/>\nWe speak of a brother and also of brethren,<br \/>\nBut though we say mother, we never say methren.<br \/>\nThen the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,<br \/>\nBut imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/only-the-english-could-have-invented-this-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only the English Could Have Invented This Language&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}