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eye eyen (rare, found in some regional dialects, used by Shakespeare) shoe shoon (rare/dialectal) house housen (rare/dialectal, used by Rudyard Kipling...

in Europe at various times in the Middle Ages. The poulaine proper was a shoe or boot of soft material whose elongated toe (also known as a poulaine or...

the 16th century, shoon was still in use as the plural form of shoe, but in contemporary English the only acceptable form is shoes, using the general...

Book of English Verse (1900) #381      Note: ae: one; hosen: stockings; shoon: shoes; whinnes: thorns; bane: bone; brig: bridge The safety and comfort of...

brethren. Some dialects still have forms such as eyen (for eyes), shoon (for shoes), hosen (for hose(s)), kine (for cows), and been (for bees). Grammatical...

plurals such as ee/een (eye/eyes), coo/kye (cow/cows) and shough/shoon (shoe/shoes) that survived from Old English into Northumbrian but have become...

Cauf-leather shoon upon your feet, And in my arms ye'se lie and sleep, An' ye sall be my dearie. You shall get suitable gowns and ribbons, Calf-leather shoes upon...

for me. So fare thee weel, Grinfilt, a soger awm made: Awve getten new shoon, un a rare nice cockade; Awll feight for Owd Englond os hard os aw con,...

recounted by a servant, Helen Miller, that when found cleaning James's shoes Lamie tore them from her hands and threw them across the room with considerable...