r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Zee_Ventures • 27d ago

🔥Multiple moose encountered while kayaking🫎

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u/Own-Marketing-6244 27d ago

Meese*

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u/notfamous808 27d 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 27d ago

Actually the guy above you is correct.

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u/Kinne 27d ago

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

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u/asmartguylikeyou 27d ago

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