h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Very interesting theory. Entertaining...

If anyone's still interested in this conversation, I remembered another saying from my time in a one-room country school:

The sun may kiss the bright blue sky
The stars may kiss the moon on high
The dew drops, they may kiss the grass
But you. my friend, can kiss my a**

Were we ever awful kids!

If meece=mice, and mizen=mice too, then mizen goes back to the Anglo Saxon plural ending of -en. It's like the area in Bath called Beechen Cliff - Beeches Cliff.

Researcher 236967, so I'm told!

Sso, if you have a ball-mouse, and a click-mouse, do you have mice, mizen, neither, or both? One has to be silly!

Meece, I guess.

I was told at college in Edinburgh that the plural of computer mouse is mouses, but I'm not sure who the ruling authority on that decision was. Maybe someone wrote it in a dictionary so it must be true!

Reminds me of

If the plural of mouse is mice, is the plural of spouse then spice?

If the plural of goose is geese, is the plural of moose then meese?

(I tend to say things like this fairly often and then my friends look at me funny.)

Off topic a bit, not plurals, but I heard a good expression last night at Tai Chi - *Suck it up princess* - applied, aparently, to anyone, male or female, of any age! One of the older male members was complaining about something, and another - male member - told him to suck it up princess. It created a couple of seconds of silence, then the whole class laughed.