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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

8 hrs ago

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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The most not fun sentence in English for folks learning English 😀 [View all] malaise 15 hrs ago OP

;-{)....... Goonch 14 hrs ago #1

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Hehehehe malaise 14 hrs ago #4

Nicely played malaise 14 hrs ago #3

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ROFL malaise 13 hrs ago #6

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Some punctuation might help. :-) TheRickles 13 hrs ago #8

Ain't that the truth. n/t malthaussen 13 hrs ago #11

That's the sentence I'd like to drag my seventh-grade teacher to and say... malthaussen 13 hrs ago #9

I have coarse and fine sea salt. After skipping on the coarse I thought to myself "fine is fine". twodogsbarking 13 hrs ago #10

LOL malaise 13 hrs ago #14

Ah but goose has yet another meaning. If you get goosed more than once is it geesed? twodogsbarking 10 hrs ago #17

Love it malaise 10 hrs ago #18

Do you really want to know? Chellee 8 hrs ago #29

I always want to learn something malaise 8 hrs ago #31

You're welcome Chellee 2 hrs ago #37

That letter is silent until I sez it aint! paleotn 13 hrs ago #12

French is the worst.. Permanut 8 hrs ago #28

Perhaps learning to read English. Igel 13 hrs ago #13

Spelled "ghoti" sounds exactly like "fish." Kid Berwyn 12 hrs ago #15

Haha malaise 12 hrs ago #16

When I was living in Catalunya, it was a requirement to learn the one about the setze jutges (sixteen judges) DFW 9 hrs ago #19

Haha malaise 9 hrs ago #20

When my daughters were very little I taught them the first part of that DFW 9 hrs ago #21

Clearly not wimps malaise 9 hrs ago #22

Here is the ultimate test of all time (you have to click on "watch on youtube" ) DFW 9 hrs ago #23

LOL malaise 8 hrs ago #24

5.8 million views DFW 8 hrs ago #25

Well I know every word for this one malaise 8 hrs ago #26

These words were part of one of the very very early I Love Lucy episodes sdfernando 8 hrs ago #27

Fascinating malaise 8 hrs ago #30

Interesting video! If you'd like to know how English ended up with those spellings/pronunciations, I posted highplainsdem 8 hrs ago #32

Thanks malaise 8 hrs ago #33

You're welcome! I love the OED. Have the compact edition I bought about highplainsdem 7 hrs ago #34

Have mine right here malaise 7 hrs ago #35

Great! highplainsdem 7 hrs ago #36