Y'all need to pick up copies of Richard Lederer's books, "Crazy English", and "Anguished English".Not much explanation as to why things are the way they are, but some great essays, such as the one about 'Foxen in the henhice' (foxes in the henhouses...Ox, oxen, so Fox, foxen. Mouse, mice, so House, hice...right?)
'hootz