Why is there room for variety in “twelve sentences?”
Because we can select new events.
How do we know that “potatoes” in the singular should not have an “e” at the end?
Because they spell O stop at e!
What should be done to a “misanthrope?”
Spare him not.
What was the owl of “Minerva?”
A vermin!
These, wherever they are found,
Cluster lightly overhead.
Should you chance to turn them round
Blows may tell of weight instead.
Twisted in a foreign tongue,
You will see them as they are.
Changed again they need a bung
When you move them full and far.
This is solved by the anagram words nuts, stun, sunt, tuns. (Sunt is Latin for “they are.”)