For example: Deer is never with an S along with many other animals and used singular and plural. Also, goose is geese, foot is turned to feet, etc.
2006-12-31 20:37:53 · 7 answers · asked by careercollegestudent69 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
In the English language most nouns are countable, but there are several uncountable nouns too (like the examples you gave). We use these words in the English language because these words either came from Old English, Latin (the 'et cetera' you used), Greek, German, and/or French. Since English is a mixture of languages, so there are some nouns that are not counted by adding 's'.
2006-12-31 20:50:33 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, answer won't fit here but it isn't only English that has such stupidity, many other languages do too. Example, in French, everything is either male or female (le or la), not only do you need to know how to spell it, you need to know it's sex. Bouche is mouth, is it la or le (I reckon it would depend whether it was on a man or a woman) but for memory, it's la, female! Yes, English needs to be re-written or corrected. The Americans have made a start, words like honour and colour are honor and color etc.
2007-01-01 04:50:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The English language is known as a "stealer" of many other known languages such as Latin and French. Our grammer rules and vocabulary can be traced to these older languages. The inconsistency you mentioned is because of English "stealing" from different languages.
2007-01-01 04:53:28 · answer #3 · answered by vaeda riella 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
English is a messed-up language and often doesn't make sense. The so-called "rules" of English are merely suggestions. The only thing you can do is memorize those cases that don't follow the "rules." Good luck!
2007-01-01 04:50:38 · answer #4 · answered by Gee Wye 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Where is your problem? Here in Germany it is even worse; we call a matchbox - Streichholzschaechtelchen.
2007-01-01 04:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bamma say it's a deers life. Bamma otta know.
2007-01-01 04:47:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
thats because
deer is for one. deers is for more than one .
goose is for one and geese is for more than one. the plural !!
foot is one . and the plural is feet /.dah!
like fish is just weird casue you cant say fishes but hmmmmm eya .. dunno it just is ..read a dictionary there right!
2007-01-01 04:42:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋