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Minutes for

The newsletter features a lighthearted exploration of the peculiarities of the English language, highlighting its inconsistencies and quirks. The piece begins with a humorous observation about the irregular plural forms of nouns, such as “oxen” instead of “oxes” or “geese” rather than “gees,” and extends to the oddities of spelling and pronunciation. It questions why “the plural of man is men” but “the plural of pan is not pen,” or why “a goose becomes geese” while “a moose remains moose.” The article also points out the absurdity of phrases like “English muffins” not originating in England or “French fries” not being from France, and ponders the logic