You call a group of gooses "geese", right? I don't get it.
2006-10-28 14:28:16 · 11 answers · asked by marcia_mahoya 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
it's dirived from the word motavicile it means big beast who stands on four legs and the reason that mooses aren't refered to as meese is becasue of what i said goose and geese make sence because of where the word was dirived, i just made that all up i'm sorry, hope you get a laugh from it though
2006-10-28 14:33:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds too weird to say meese after saying moose for a couple hundred years.
2006-10-29 01:11:05 · answer #2 · answered by Nickname 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It confuses the people who also refer to a group of mice as meece although I guess you could call them meeses ( I love those meeses to peices)
2006-10-28 21:46:21 · answer #3 · answered by snoop_dougie_doug04 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you call a group of gooses geese???
2006-10-28 21:30:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, the English language is a weird one. Why can't we call more than one deer, deers? Or why are mice not just called mouses? I mean... c'mon.
2006-10-28 21:31:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
More than one mouse are mice,
But more than one spouse aren't spice.
If you own a house and another house,
Why is it "houses," not "hice?"
And I will never understand why
It's "hippopotamuses," not "hippopotimi."
If a mongoose gooses a friend, is it "mongoosed"
Or mongeesed? I are SO confoosed!
2006-10-28 21:45:03 · answer #6 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To confuse foreigners trying to learn our language.
2006-10-29 12:34:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably for the same reason you don't call a group of deer "deers" or a flock of sheep "sheeps"..... :D
2006-10-28 21:31:34 · answer #8 · answered by Tawney 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question! I don't get it either. The English language is weird like that. :]
2006-10-28 21:30:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
reminds me of a ballad by allan sherman.
"a pair of mouse is meece"
lol
2006-10-28 21:31:54 · answer #10 · answered by Duckie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋