"Gorio" schrieb :
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> 'Ophelia[_7_ Wrote:
>> On Nov 14, 10:15 pm, learnspeakingenglish
>> wrote:-
>> We will begin with BOX and the plural is BOXES.
>>
>> But the plural OX should be OXEN and not OXES.
>>
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>> What I'd like to know is how come bough, cough, dough, rough, and
>> tough don't all rhyme? What about bomb, comb, tomb, and womb?-
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>> Just to catch you out.... eg
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>
> English just added it's one millionth word. I don't know what it is; but
> you can bet it's some chemical.
>
> By comparison, Italian has 250-350,000, Mandarin Chinese, 500,000. We
> got a lot of syntax to figure out.
>

"English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over,
and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
(Mark Twain ?)

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner