In an effort to improve my writing ability I've been reading a book entitled "Woe is I - The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English" by Patricia T. O'Conner. She presents the subject in a humorous way and takes a lot of the stuffiness out of learning proper grammar.
In the chapter "Plurals Before Swine" she discusses the difficulty encountered when writing certain words in the plural form. I wanted to share a little poem from that page because it made me laugh.
WORDS TO THE WHYS
Ups and downs and ins and outs,
Forevers and nevers and whys.
Befores and afters, dos and don'ts.
Farewells and hellos and good-byes.
Life is a string of perhapses,
A medley of whens and so whats.
We rise on our yeses and maybes,
Then fall on our nos and our buts.
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