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The plural form for goose is "geese".
The plural form for moose is "moose".

Why? Well, goose was an OLD English word, and i-type suffixes (including some plural endings) in Old English and and most Germanic languages sometimes changed the sound of the preceding vowel. That' s how we ended up with man/men, mouse/mice, louse/lice, tooth/teeth, foot/feet, etc. as well as other vowel changes between forms (like old > elder,eldest; strong > strength; full > fill; food > feed). In Middle English the old complicated system of endings disappeared and English developed a new standard way of forming plurals -- adding -(e)s. Some common words kept their older forms, others went along with the change (thus the plural of house took the modern plural form [compare German Haus/Haueser], but mouse did not).

(The Germanic change in vowel sounds between forms is called "umlaut" or "i-mutation")

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/IOE/pronunciation.html#pronounce:imutation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_umlaut



Now "Moose" is a MODERN English word -- borrowed from Algonquian -- so we wouldn't expect it to follow an OLD English method of forming plurals. What it does instead is follow a pattern common for wild "herd" animals -- the singular and plural forms are the same.

Compare: deer, antelope, caribou, elk, buffalo, bison

2006-07-06 07:36:44 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 1 0

Who calls a herd of moose a bunch ??? a flock of geese a bunch ???? a moose is a moose .....a group of moose a herd. a goose is a goose and many of them is a flock of geese. ummmm errrrr, why do you ask 3 dogs f#@$ing ?

2006-07-05 11:02:12 · answer #2 · answered by tusitala 3 · 0 0

My wife and I say this:
1 moose is a moose
2 moose is meece
3 moose is meeces.
I think it is just moose even as plural. And actually, a group of geese is called a gagle of geese.

2006-07-05 10:19:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

moose - you have a problem with that?
By the way what if the goose is a gander?
geese is plural meaning at least 2
a gaggle is a bunch of geese

2006-07-05 10:19:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

A bunch of moose are called a herd.

2006-07-05 10:21:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1 moose = moose
2 or more moose,= moose "look @ those moose on the hill"
1 Bull, 1 cow, 1 calf = still moose
1 Bull , six cows = Harem
2 or more bulls 6 or more cows and a few calves = Herd " look @ those moose on the hill" ! "Yeah thats a big Herd"

2006-07-05 10:20:24 · answer #6 · answered by twostories 4 · 0 0

I grew up with some people who's last name was Moose. There was MooseMan, MooseWoman, MooseBoy, and MooseGirl, we always just called them the MoosePeople.

2006-07-05 10:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by J P 7 · 1 0

There is no plural for moose seems silly but there isn't. Maybe meese?? 1 moose 2 meese.

2006-07-05 10:21:00 · answer #8 · answered by olderandwiser 4 · 0 0

Moose. Inconsistent, I know, but that's the marvel and the mystery of the english language.

2006-07-05 10:20:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

on which tree do geeses and mooses grow in bunches ?

2006-07-05 10:22:07 · answer #10 · answered by greengunge 5 · 0 0

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