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jimbopalobop | 20:05 Thu 22nd Feb 2007 | Animals & Nature
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If the plural is a gaggle of geese and a flock of sheep, and the singular is goose, why is it not Shoop and not sheep? please someone explain this to me!!
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So does that make a singular fish a foosh?
So what's the plural of moose?
The plural of 'sheep' used to be 'sk�pu', but it lost the final vowel in Anglo-Saxon days. In Northumbria for a lot longer, 'scipo' was the plural form, so they retained the final sound there. In the end, though, they gave in too and now we all speak of 'sheep' as both singular and plural...just as with 'deer' , 'fish' etc.
And in Old English, a goose was 'gos', and the plural was 'g�s'.
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Well thank you very much guys.

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