Saturday, 30 April 2011

Of Tits and Mice

There is an animal that's called a titmouse. Well, let's take a good look at this compound noun. This is a woman's tit:




and this is a mouse:




And this is a titmouse:




And the plural (after all, this blog is to brush up on your English:) is titmice. (Following the mouse-mice irregular pattern.) Here we go:





Funny things. Names.

1 comment:

amazenglish team said...

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This was a typical man post:)
And my new one is a typical woman post, check it out.