To: MayflowerMadam; GreyFriar
"A 'sheave' is a bundle of wheat stalks that have not had the grain removed.""The bundle is a 'sheaf'; plural bundles is 'sheaves'.
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I once knew a guy who thought they were singing "Bringing in the sheeps". (Of course, the plural of "sheep" is "sheep". That follows the same old pluralization rule as "the plural of goose is..." -- oh, never mind!)
112 posted on
06/03/2014 7:26:56 PM PDT by
Heart-Rest
("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
To: Heart-Rest
The classic Kid Version Misheard in Sunday School. A classmate of mine at St. Philip's actually thought we were singing:
"Bringing in the cheese
Bringing in the cheese,
We shall come with George and them,
Bringing in the cheese."
118 posted on
06/04/2014 6:59:40 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
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