Why is ‘houses’ the plural of ‘house’, while the plural for ‘mouse’ is ‘mice’?
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People have already mentioned good reasons but one additional thing is language is always evolving. As a result words slowly migrate from exceptions to the rule to following the rule. In this case, it is entirely possible in 400 years, “mouses” will be the accepted plural to mouse but the plural to house will almost certainly remain the same. An existing example is the plural of cow used to be kine but now cows is acceptable.
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