13.I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.
14.Even though it's the same sound, louse, lice, for whatever reason, just from some quirk of our spelling history, not only do we change the vowels used here, we also change the consonants you say.
15.What's more, keeping the spotlight focused on the plight of a few celebrities means the demise of species with homelier faces — or no faces at all...you've probably never seen a campaign to save the stinking cedar or the pygmy hog-sucking louse.