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minus-squareFreshLight@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·1 year agoI like the thought that just like goose and geese the plural of moose should respectively be meese.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoAgreed. Following the same logic: if the plural of ox is oxen, the plural of fox is foxen.
minus-squareGot_Bent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoNow I feel like the marketing department for the fashion industry back in the sixties missed an opportunity. It could’ve been a foxen coat or a foxen wrap.
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThe plural of grass should be grease.
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoAnalogy is one of the strongest factors in language change
minus-squaremitchty@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI die on this hill, people look at me weird when I say meese but it seems dum dum to have them different.
I like the thought that just like goose and geese the plural of moose should respectively be meese.
Agreed.
Following the same logic: if the plural of ox is oxen, the plural of fox is foxen.
Now I feel like the marketing department for the fashion industry back in the sixties missed an opportunity. It could’ve been a foxen coat or a foxen wrap.
The plural of grass should be grease.
Meesen.
Analogy is one of the strongest factors in language change
I die on this hill, people look at me weird when I say meese but it seems dum dum to have them different.