• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    lol … I always love explaining this. I’m Indigenous Canadian, 100% Ojibway from northern Ontario and I fluently speak my Indigenous language, it’s my first language before English.

    The Ojibway word for moose is … moose … (it’s an Indigenous word that hasn’t changed)

    The Ojibway word for the plural of moose is … moosuk

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      2 months ago

      I really like this, and I think moosuk really encapsulates the feeling of stumbling across more than one moose in the wild, but the last thing English needs is another standard for pluralization.

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      2 months ago

      I will die on meese is plural hill. It’s my fetch, I’m gonna make it happen.