Weird English!?

Question

If the plural of mouse is mice, then why is the plural of house, houses, not hice?

Answer 1

See how much fun learning English is for foreigners.
We really do them in on the plate, dish and serving routine, that drives a lot of folks just over the edge.
We had a plate of spaghetti, a dish of fried okra and a serving of pudding and it turned out to be the same size container, just different colors. Wheeee!

Answer 2

the regular plural is --s or --es. but the mouse --> mice example is an irregular plural. By definition irregular are not regular even in their irregularity. Even though house and mouse have the same origin: middle English by way of Old English by way of middle high German. I don't know what the plurals in those languages looked like, but often until the creation of dictionaries which wasn't until 1700's these irregularities are not the same in every instance. probably you would find both mouses and mice in written and spoken forms. That's not to say hice would necessarily be found.
One observation: I have noticed that most of the irregular plurals in English not only have their origin in German but also are generally words for animals or persons in the household: wives, women, children, geese, oxen, cattle, lice, mice.

Answer 3

no
In English, plurals are usually just words which you add and 's' to representing the number (not singular). Example: horse, horses...house, houses.
Language has rules and most of them do not have a reason. There is no known reason that the plural of mouse is mice. Some exceptional words have different plurals and those are the words you would have to remember.
In my opinion, the plural of mouse became mice because mouses doesn't sound so good.
I hope this information was useful.

Answer 4

The simple answer is that the two words come from different roots and thus have different grammatical rules applied. Words like Mouses and Meece were used in the past, but common usage and the codification of the language in print, such as in dictionaries have fixed our current vocabulary for the time being, but never forget that language is a living thing, constantly evolving, and a visitor returning from a few centuries into the future would probably be unable to communicate with us.

Answer 5

And then there is dice....