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My daughter and I have had more conversations about geese and gooses. She’s into a farm ‘thing’ so the topic comes up alot. But she simply cannot grasp that goose and geese are the exception to a grammatical rule.

She just recently got a glimmer of understanding about plurals, and she doesn’t get that the goose/geese thing is an exception. When I try and explain it to her, she looks at me questioningly, and with a hint of betrayal, as if to say “How can you say this? All along I thought that plurals had an ‘S’, and now you tell me otherwise.”

What can I say? And there are even more eggregious grammatical anomalies in store for her. Welcome to the Big Bad World of English.

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  1. Mary | May 17, 2005 at 3:34 pm | Permalink

    English is such a complicated language to grasp, often even for us adults that have spoken it our entire lives. Look how far she’s come with the language, though, in such a short time – she’ll grasp it eventually – for sure!!!