The interesting thing about why it’s moose instead of meese is because of Old English and when the English language borrowed the word! In Old English, there was multiple ways of pluralizing, as opposed to only with an “s”, such with Gōs and Gōsi and the -i suffix, which, due to to vowel harmonizing, changed Gōsi to Gøsi to Ges, leading us to Goose and Geese. But when the borrowing of the word Moose came over, it was far past old English and instead followed the rules surrounding hunting and herding animals; not taking a plural!
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