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Re: Caboose to go with my recently completed Locomotive.
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:10:27 GMT
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Hmm.. Mr. Dictionary says Moose isn't an English word, it's Algonquin. Not fair
game!
Caboose is more Germanic, Dutch 'kabuis' being in that family along with
English, so it still proves there's no telling about the rules. Sticking with
English, consider that mouse and house have the same form in Old English, mus,
hus, but we don't have hice. However, mus was Greek first, but hus wasn't, and
plurals can acquire long vowel sounds in Greek words. Yet tooth, which becomes
teeth, is more English (Latin/Greek are dent, odont, possibly related to Old
High German 'zand') and shows just the opposite.
Plurals! Somebody long dead made them up for us.
In lugnet.trains, Eric Kingsley writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> > Jonathan Wilson <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> writes:
> >
> > > Cabeese?
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> > The plural form of caboose?
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> In a kidding sort of way yes. I thinks its just one of those confusing parts
> of the English language. For example the plural of goose is geese but the
> plural of Moose is not Meese its Moose the sigular is the same as the plural.
> I believe that the same holds true of for Caboose where the plural is also
> Caboose. You can have one caboose or many caboose not cabeese.
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> This is one of those wacky situations that even confuses many native English
> speaking people because you are breaking so many rules that there might as well
> not be any rules.
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> Eric Kingsley
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| (...) In a kidding sort of way yes. I thinks its just one of those confusing parts of the English language. For example the plural of goose is geese but the plural of Moose is not Meese its Moose the sigular is the same as the plural. I believe that (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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