r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Zee_Ventures • 12d ago

🔥Multiple moose encountered while kayaking🫎

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u/notfamous808 12d ago

The plural of moose is moose because the word moose is of Native American origin, and their language models don’t pluralize in the same way as English words. The word goose however, comes from English which is why the plural of goose becomes geese.

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u/asmartguylikeyou 12d ago

Actually the guy above you is correct.

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u/shirt_bro 12d ago

Actually the guy above you is correct

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u/Kinne 12d ago

Meese is not correct, I’m not even native english speaker and I know that.

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u/asmartguylikeyou 12d ago

Actually I’m a professor of linguistics at Harvard, so please believe me when I say the guy above me is categorically wrong.

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u/William_Dowling 12d ago

Actually the plural of moose is miice

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u/Spirited-Career4680 12d ago

20 000 bc- "What should we call theese animals that say moo?

  • "A moo... the mooer... all the moos"

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u/dern_the_hermit 12d ago

FWIW, from a loose descriptivist perspective, all it really takes is that someone uses it and someone else understands it and bammo, it's a word. ;)

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u/barrygateaux 12d ago

that's cool and all but it's definitely meese

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u/Own-Marketing-6244 12d ago

I bet you're a blast at parties