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The Plural of Moose
Posted by Angela, Oct 18, 2007. 1390 views. ID = 188
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 | Author was inspired when she had a conversation about the plural of moose being meese. Unfortunately, I did not finish writing this one in under 15 minutes T.T Ah well. |  | This post has been awarded 20 stars by 7 readers. |
Plurals are odd things
Agreed me and my friend.
It's all quite confusing
From beginning to end.
The plural of "goose"
We all know is "geese"
But the plural of "moose"
We don't say "meese"
And the plural of "mouse"?
Why of course it's "mice".
But what of the word "house"?
People don't say, "two hice"
And the plural of "tooth"
Of course we know it's "teeth"
But with the word "booth"
You don't say, "I'd like two beeth"
And what about "foot"?
Well, most of us have 2 feet.
But what about a boot?
We don't wear 2 beet.
And if the plural of "man"
Is of couse, "men"
But with the word "pan"
We know the plural isn't "pen"
And if you have more than 1 brother
We say," Your brethren"
But if there's more than 1 mother
We don't say "methren"
And if we have a box
The plural is "boxes"
But what about an ox
We don't say "oxes"
Plurals are odd things
But we all need them.
Why, without them, for one,
You wouldn't have this poem.
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Comments
Josiah T.
Oct 18, 2007 | Yup, I totally agree. Just one slight thing I noticed, "you'r" should be "your" I think, it didn't look like "you're." Great job!
~Posted by Josiah T., Oct 18, 2007 | 
Douglas
Oct 18, 2007 | nicely done. this one goes in the featured gallery. :)
Just a couple little things:
The word is "brethren" (and therfore, I suppose, "methren"), and I think this line should be punctuated differently...
Why, without them for one.
maybe like this:
Why, with out them, for one,
although that certainly is a lot of commas in one line!
~Posted by Douglas, Oct 18, 2007 |
Angela
Oct 18, 2007 | xD Thanks guys. I'm a little braindead this morning =P
~Posted by Angela, Oct 18, 2007 | 
Katie
Oct 18, 2007 | Nice job!
~Posted by Katie, Oct 18, 2007 | 
death_shadow
Oct 22, 2007 | well most people say borthers but brehteran works too.
~Posted by death_shadow, Oct 22, 2007 |
Angela
Oct 23, 2007 | @ Death - I think you meant "brothers" instead of "borthers" xD And it was just something that I thought would make people laugh.
~Posted by Angela, Oct 23, 2007 | 
Rabbit Stu
Nov 18, 2007 | heh heh...nice poem. I'm going to post one about a moose later on this week!
~Posted by Rabbit Stu, Nov 18, 2007 | 
EHaze
Jan 17 | It is funny that a person brings up this topic. Being in Alaska where there are tons of these beasts, the plural use of the word moose becomes an issue. I debate it myself.
"here comes 300 moose!" That just doesn't sound correct.
~Posted by EHaze, Jan 17 |
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