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Plural of mongoose:
mengoose
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re:
Plural of mongoose:
mengoose
being a bit of a nit picker here, but if mon is one (as in monaural records-- those with a single sound track..) the plural could be
duegoose (as duet-- 2 singer)
or for a multitude, polygoose!
i would not recomment steroegoose..
stereo is a bit of a trick, it means solid-- going back to the greek root stereos. the earliest english compound word that used stereo was stereometry-- the mathamatical term denoting the measurement of three dimentional objects.
this was followed by stereographic, and stereotype(originally a 'solid' printing block; the metaporical 'unvaried or conventional image' come to be in the middle of the 19th century,) along with stereoscope.. a viewer for reproducing 'solid' or 3-d images.
Stereophonic, likewise produced 3 -d sound!
(most of the info on stereo, above from Ayto's Dictionary of Word Origins
which is why stereo can be 2 or 4 or 8 or some other number of tracks.. but monaural is always 1 sound (track)
so a stereogoose.. would be a solid one.. but i think the plain old mongoose is pretty solid, to begin with..
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Dear of Troy,
I was jesting (what else?) with mengoose. I was thinking in terms of how sometimes you hear people say, "Mon" instead of "Man," pronounced something like "Monn." So, reading mongoose that way (mon for man), well, the rest is pretty obvious.
In the spirit of explaining the ludicrous,
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Nonsence, Dub dub, you bring out a great point.. and perhaps i was wrong.. Mon is sometimes a slang way to say man, but it is french for man isn't it? Monsure?
so these ***goose's are they clones? what about the womangooge's?(or should that be womongoose's?) and then womengoose's if you have more than one?
but maybe since Mon sound french-- it should be the madamgoose's! and the young one madamasellegoose's, n'pas?
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Mon is sometimes a slang way to
say man, but it is french for man isn't it? Monsure?It's "Monsieur," and it literally means, "My lord." So, following this line of logic, 'mongoose" means "my goose." Nah, this is chasing a wild goose, I'm afraid. Now, I'll duck for cover after posting such a canard! 
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Geoff, you post correcting my spelling of monsieur, in relation to mongooses, (or is it monsieurgooses!) puts me into a fowl mood! you obviously carnary about my feelings!
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Surely the plural of "mongoose" is "votregoose"? I mean, really!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Well, "Really" back atcha' CApK
And while we are at it --- be careful how you scatter votregoose around votreself ... and as for monself, I am always wary when someone offers me a free goose!
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