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I failed English in High School
Could not understand the writing rule
If I say, when it reigns it pores, people agree
Yet when I write the same phrase people say what’s wrong with me
I before E (accept) after C less it sounds like an a as in neighbor or weigh
Where do the words foreign and sovereign (steigh)
Do they stay with a goose among geese or with a moose among (meese)
Do they live in a house with a scavenger mouse or something much bigger
Is there several (hice) with several scavenger mice
Often in our language, opposites mean just the same
To anyone trying to learn it, confusion’s the name of the game.
People fill a form in, when they’re filling it out
As Alfie was fond of saying, “What’s that all about?
Up and down are opposites, a fact you can’t deny.
Yet ‘slow up’ and ‘slow down’ are synonymous; I’ve never worked out why.
Set fire to a house and it burns up, while it’s burning down.
Having raised it to the rooftop, you can raze it to the ground.
Now slim means the opposite of fat, so I really wish I knew
How a slim chance means there’s not much and a fat chance means that too.
There are other contradictions that puzzle me as well.
How can we sometimes have noses that run, while having feet that smell?
And if writers write and actors act why is it do you suppose
That you never see a finger fing or see a grocer groce?
And don’t get me started on plurals. There I admit defeat.
If the plural of foot is feet, why aren’t two boots called ‘beet’?
The plural of mouse of course is mice and that of louse is lice.
So why are the houses we live in not referred to as ‘hice’?
I could go on forever but time is running out.
I’ll leave the last word to Alfie, “What’s it all about?
-------------------------------I failed English in High School
Could not understand the writing rule
If I say, when it reigns it pores, people agree
Yet when I write the same phrase people say what’s wrong with me
I before E (accept) after C less it sounds like an a as in neighbor or weigh
Where do the words foreign and sovereign (steigh)
Do they stay with a goose among geese or with a moose among (meese)
Do they live in a house with a scavenger mouse or something much bigger
Is there several (hice) with several scavenger mice