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GOOOOSE Anonymous
ITT: Geese
>> Anonymous
i believe the term is 'gooses'
>> Anonymous
Oh holy shit.
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GEESE
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Duck?
>> Anonymous
So, um, if more than one goose is geese, how come more than one moose isn't meese?
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>So, um, if more than one goose is geese, how come more than one moose isn't meese?

Because "goose" is a Germanic word and "moose" is an Algonquin word. Goose -> geese is a normal pattern of pluralization in the Germanic languages, and in many other PIE-root languages, and its called "ablaut." It is used in very old Anglo-Saxon words like sing/sang/sung/song and, of course, goose/geese.

I don't know how Algonquin forms its plurals: evidently they didn't ablaut their vowels.

In case you didn't know, the Germanic word for "moose" is "elk." It's plural, "elks," is formed by the even more common addition of "-s" to a singular noun.
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I forgot to add, obviously in the case of sing/sang/sung/song the ablaut isn't for the formation of the plural, but in shaping the tenses and verb/noun distinction. That's actually the more common use of ablaut in old German.
>> Anonymous
silly goose
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>>227124
PROMOTIONS!!
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oh shi-
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wow lol, looks like a chocobo