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Chellee

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29. Do you really want to know?

Reply to malaise (Reply #14)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 02:58 PM

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I sometimes have a difficult time determining when people are asking actual questions, and when they're being funny.

If you did sincerely want to know, goose comes from Old English, and moose comes from Algonquian. It's just a coincidence that they rhyme. That's why their plurals don't follow the same rules, because they come from two vastly different languages.

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