Showing posts with label irregular plurals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irregular plurals. Show all posts

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.