Mouse and house sound the same. When there is one mouse you say mouse. When there is one house you say house. When there is more than one mouse you say mice but when there is more than one house you say houses. Why? I mean why is it different- mouse mice?--- House houses not hice or something along those lines???
2006-12-12 20:20:57 · 12 answers · asked by ATB 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Wow! What a thought! You're really spinning!
House, Mouse
House, Mice
Mouse, House
Mice, Hice?
Nice!
Good luck!
2006-12-12 20:24:38 · answer #1 · answered by lindakflowers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple - Mice is the Plural for Mouse -- Houses is the Plural for House -- That is the Curiosity of the English Language -- but I,m sure you already Know That ---- here we go again No or Know --- Oops.
2006-12-13 08:43:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mouse/mice comes from anglo saxon Mus of which plural was Mys therefore mice
House in Anglo Saxon was Hus as in the Headmans, Leaders, Elders Hus as opposed to normal huts, but as the large house was generally not grouped together with others there was no known plural.
2006-12-13 04:33:38 · answer #3 · answered by Barry G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
house and mouse sounds the same are homonyms
houses and mice plural forms
2006-12-13 04:25:40 · answer #4 · answered by desiree gersaniba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can live in a house, but not in a mouse.
2006-12-13 04:23:34 · answer #5 · answered by Feeling new @ 42 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because mice scare elephants. houses do not scare elephants, unless of course it is a house in the shape of a mouse. that would scare an elephant.
all the words of the English dictionary have to do with elephants, if you search each of them carefully, you will begin to notice this.
(for example, why does grey rhyme with elephant? because elephants are grey. why does pray rhyme with grey when elephants are not religious? it's a huge debate.)
2006-12-13 04:26:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is strange the English language. I wanted more than one trout when I went to buy some fish.I couldn't ask for two trouts so I asked for a brace of trite which the fishmonger immediately understood. Funny language English!!
2006-12-16 22:05:36 · answer #7 · answered by Birdman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Language is full of irregularities like that. The reason is that it has evolved over a very long time. Efforts to make language simpler or more uniform (like Esperanto) have failed.
It's annoying dude, but you'll have to live with it.
2006-12-13 04:27:31 · answer #8 · answered by Thou Shalt Not Think 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree with you......it irritates me sometimes about the English Language. Why is it so darn complicated?
Why do we write know with a 'silent k', if is that silent -get rid of it!
Try teaching and explaining to a child why these words aren't spelt as they sound.
2006-12-13 04:39:55 · answer #9 · answered by Loopy loo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure, it's the joy of the english language i guess, like cough and rough, spelt the same but sound completeley different. no wonder English is the most difficult language to learn , i mean what are silent letters all about?
:D
2006-12-13 04:28:33 · answer #10 · answered by Miss Tickle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋