The English Have Driven Us Nuts Poem by Stanley Cooper

The English have driven us
Nuts, with the language they’ve given us
It should be more than ample
To display this one example

Since the plural of mouse is mice
And with more than one louse, we have lice
So logically it would suffice
For the plural of house to be hice

This disciplined British persistence
Maddens us with Brit inconsistence
Though, it’s not quite all reprehensible
As it’s sometimes quite common sensible

Imagine reading Pygmalion
In Italian