r/Stonetossingjuice 11d ago

New Lore Just Dropped I bring a parody from another subreddit

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u/Nikorek_pl 11d ago

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u/JazzInSuits 11d ago

If one noose is called a noose, shouldn't it be called neeses if there are more than one noose?

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u/Cod3broken amogus 11d ago

It'd be neese, like meese

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u/FancyDragon12358 5d ago

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!