I am a French speaking Canadian so English is my second language. I know that more than one goose are geese. What about more than one caboose? Cabooses or cabeese? I am seeing both on the web. What is the correct word?
I have always heard multiple cabooses referred to, as you can see, cabooses.[C):-)]
Caboose is of indeterminate etymology, but the normal way of forming a plural in English is by adding an -s or -es, so cabooses is correct. I always thought cabeese was a humorous formation , based on jokey parallel to geese.
Google Search for Cabooses or Cabeese?
Cabooses, not cabeese. … The word caboose is a “count noun” and takes a normal count plural. For example: “To streamline operations, the railroads would like to permanently uncouple these little lookout cars from freight trains. ‘Cabooses are dead weight,’ says a vice president of a Western railroad.
Mel
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Cabooses is probably correct, but cabeese works fine here and you will see it often. Personally, I use cabeese.
Maybe if we use ‘cabeese’ often enough it will be added to Webster’s dictionary![swg][(-D][(-D]
Dave
It is Cabooses.
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-Kevin
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In real life railroading there is no cabooses or cabeeses.
A example…
It is simply put caboose 4412 and 4490 on caboose S2 and pull 4477,4401 and 4454 from outbound ready and place them on Eastbound 197 ED14,Eastbound X2215, ED15 and Westbound 98 WD21 in that order…Understood?
Did you understand your conductors orders?
Guards Van by Bear, on Flickr
Whatever you want to say, we will know what you mean.
Cabin Cars
Vans
Crew Cars
Crummies
Hacks
Good luck Guy, trying to make any sense out of the english language, remember the word ''GHOTI" is pronounced fish, look it up.
But only if you break three rules of English. Gh is only F if proceeded by au or ou. Ti is “tee” unless followed by a vowel. The o as an I seems to be ambiguous but may require a w. Gh to start a word is always a hard G (ghost).
Don’t ruin his fun
Little Johnny was the best football player the school had seen in fifteen years. But the English teacher was demanding that he drop out because his grades were so poor. The coach pleaded with the teacher.
"Well, if he can spell one word right, I’ll give him another chance.’
Johnny, spell coffee.
"K, no wait… C a, no Cof…f…e…um er E.
And the coach says awe, come on give him another chance.
ROARING
KAPHY
Shades of the old Victor Borge story that since citizens of Portugal are Portuguese, then any one citizen is a Portugoose. Except for children who are Portugoslings. He’d then shrug and say “it’s your language.”
Dave Nelson
One is a mouse. More than one is mice. There is no such word as cabeeses.
Why not go all out and use England railroad terms. The rear brakeman rides in the Van. Two or more are Vans.
Problem solved.
Dave
Cabooze
cabeeses!