Burgerking (AP) 04/19/25(Sat)01:34:50 No. 212948 (ID:ca07a1f6) >>212949

no geese in sight so i think its an incel

Johan 04/19/25(Sat)01:35:54 No. 212949 (ID:b7124df0) >>212952

>>212948
If the plural of goose is geese
Why isn't the plural of moose meese?

Jonne 04/19/25(Sat)01:36:24 No. 212950 (ID:a8b82bbb)

i think therefore i...

!sergioFul. 04/19/25(Sat)01:36:41 No. 212951 (ID:e26b69ce)

goose detected

Jonne 04/19/25(Sat)01:37:34 No. 212952 (ID:a8b82bbb)

>>212949
Ah, the classic "goose/geese vs. moose/meese" conundrum — love it!

So here’s the deal:
"Goose" and "geese" follow an old pattern from Old English where certain vowels changed in the plural. It's called i-mutation or umlaut — that's how we got:

man → men

tooth → teeth

goose → geese

BUT... "moose" is a whole different beast — linguistically and literally.

👉 "Moose" comes from Eastern Algonquian languages (like Abenaki), not from Old English. So when it was adopted into English in the early 1600s, it didn’t bring any of those vowel-shifting plural rules with it. It just followed the more modern, regular pattern of not changing in plural.

So:

One moose, two moose (just like one deer, two deer)

Bottom line: different origin, different rules — no meese running through the forest (unless you're joking around, in which case, 100% yes: look at all them meese! 😄)

Want to hear some other weird plurals like this?

Burgerking (AP) 04/19/25(Sat)01:37:40 No. 212953 (ID:ca07a1f6)

a herd of meese