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Originally Posted by Amnorix
I never realized how incredibly stupid the English language is until I had kids and had to think about what I was teaching them.
house --> houses
mouse --> mice
goose --> geese
moose --> moose
pay --> paid
pray --> prayed
And on and on and on and on. It's just a mass of inconsistent, illogical rules that you just need to memorize.
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Yup, it seems that 90% of the words that I use that would need the rule i before e except after c actually break the rule, like weird, science and their.