The plural of "moose" is ...

Jim Parish jparish at SIUE.EDU
Wed Aug 18 23:46:34 UTC 2010


Joel S. Berson wrote:
> (If you're confused by "meeses", that was an attempt to resurrect
> some half-remembered cartoon character (?) who says the plural of
> "mouse" is "meeses" - or somthing like that.)

Jinx the cat (whom Wikipedia identifies as "Mr. Jinks"). His nemeses were two meeses
named Pixie and Dixie.

Jim Parish

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