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wat"The use of "moose" in the plural is sometimes problematic. The regularly-formed plural, "mooses", is by now rare and its use may be regarded as irksome and uneuphonious. The form "meese" — formed by analogy with "goose" → "geese" — will in most cases be greeted with a snigger, and is thus generally only appropriate in humorous contexts; even pragmatics notwithstanding, because "moose" has Algonquian origins — wholly unrelated to the Germanic roots of "goose", on whose pattern the plural "meese" is formed — a strong declension plural form is etymologically inconsistent. The etymologically-consistent plural form would be "*mosinee", but this plural form sees no use in English. In ordinary common usage, "moose" is treated as an invariant noun, which means its plural is also "moose" (as with the names of many animals, such as "deer" and "fish", which are also invariant); however, this usage can sometimes be considered stilted when a group of more than one moose are considered individually, in which case avoidance of the plural may be the best option, necessitating the employment of a circumlocution, as above"."