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To and two are fore.

Shouldn't that be "To and too are fore" ?

I love it. I've had a copy of this little poem around for a long time.

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Then the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him,

but imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim.

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I think I know where that one came from. In Old English "hē" basically the same as our modern "he". But the female equivalent was "hēo" (/heːo/) which works into "hers". From Wikipedia:

hēo f. (accusative hīe, genitive hiere, dative hiere)

1. she

The Scandinavian word that turned into "she" was adopted and replaced "hēo" when a lot of England was under Danelaw.

English is a wonderful language once you get the hung of it.

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It's funny but some of these things in English actually have a name.

Palindrome: Mr Owl ate my metal worm.

Naomi, sex at noon taxes, I moan.

Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog.

The famous one is Race Car.

And I don't know if it has a name but:

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. has every letter in the alphabet.

While I'm here I'd like to show you the power of punctuation:

Woman without her man is nothing.

With 2 commas I can change the meaning of the sentence.

Woman, without her, man is nothing.

And we haven't even started on idioms yet.

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