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From: DON@SU-AI.ARPA
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Subject: re: mongice
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Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 03:27:00 EDT
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From:  Don Woods <DON@SU-AI.ARPA>

[Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.  This is the tail
end of a discussion about the plural of mongoose (mongooses).]

[...]

I'm also reminded of Walt "Pogo" Kelly's observation that "the mongoose is a
singular beast because nobody can pronounce two of them."