"A Moose In Love" schrieb :
> On Nov 14, 10:53 pm, Lil Abner > wrote:
>> On 11/14/2010 10:15 PM, learnspeakingenglish wrote:> We will begin with
>> BOX and the plural is BOXES.
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>> > But the plural OX should be OXEN and not OXES.
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>> > Visit for more
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>> How about French where Potatoes are apples of or from the earth.
>> English evolved from Germanic languages.

> The German word for potato is Kartoffel. However in my German dialect
> potatoes are referred to as: Erd Aepffel. Erd = Earth, Aepfell(the
> way we pronounce it) = Appels.

Erdapfel. Erdaepfel is the plural.
Tomato = Paradeiser (apple from paradise).

Servus,

Michael Kuettner