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Goose crossing

Geese in the Charles

JB Parrett watched as a gaggle of goslings made their way along the Charles today.


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GEESE... Plural.

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Adam says goslings, Alonzo says geese. But what if it was a several sets of geese? Would that be geeses? And if the geeses were followed by several sets of mice would that be meeses? Or would meeses be a series of mooses?

I see it. Mooses following meeses following geeses. It all makes senses and it would make for quite the census.

English is tough.

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But 'crossing' as a noun is singular.

So 'goose crossing,' like 'pedestrian crossing' or 'train crossing,' is correct.

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Gaggle, which could be applied to either geese or goslings, which would be the majority of the gaggle.

Should collective nouns be singular or plural? In the U.S. I believe is the former, while in the U.K. it is the latter.

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Goslings are bebe geeses, which is what this gaggle is.

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A couple of years back, I kayaked around a bunch of ducklings in flotilla formation. Suddenly, they all dove as the resident Bald Eagle came bombing down at them.

I didn't count them beforehand, so I don't know if it was a successful raid.

Happy for the geese child care center, there doesn't seem to be a resident eagle on that stretch of the Charles.

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seems like a lot. is that normal? and i am pretty the plural of gosling is not geesling, so gaggle of goslings

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About 5-8 per nest is typical but often different sets of parent geese will combine broods, which must have happened here. I count 32, by the way.

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It's known as a "Crèche". A goose version of kindergarten or daycare.

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