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If Houses Why Not Mouses? by Damian O'Brien (view source)
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|summary=For linguistic ladies and grammar gents, this is a book that goes deeper into the structure, source and history of English than most popular language books do. Damian O'Brien popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Damian O'Brien|chat to us]].
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I once dedicated an entire linguistics essay to the plural of sheep, in particular my older sister’s youthful fascination with it all. ''One sheep, two sheep. No two sheeps. That silly'' etc etc. So when this book arrived I thought it perfectly plausible that the author had written an extended investigation into house/houses, mouse/mice. (No two mouses? That silly.) What I discovered on making my way through the pages, however, is that there is a lot more to this book that irregular plurals of the 3-year-old-befuddling kind.