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?
Guy
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I have always heard multiple cabooses referred to, as you can see, cabooses.
Guy Papillon 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?
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.
Gary
Cabooses is probably correct, but cabeese works fine here and you will see it often. Personally, I use cabeese.
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MisterBeasleyCabooses 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!
Dave
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It is Cabooses.
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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?
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Good luck Guy, trying to make any sense out of the english language, remember the word ''GHOTI" is pronounced fish, look it up.
tatans 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).
NittanyLion tatans 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).
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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.
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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.
cabeeses!
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Cabooses!
Cabeese is a humorous term, the correct word is cabooses. While many Goose are Geese, many Moose are not Meese, it's mooses. Goose is the odd word out. And the old cartoon shown above, that's WAY out there. "meeses" would be like a double plural. The correct word, of course, is mice, but then it wouldn't rhyme with "pieces". Good old Pixie and Dixie (the meeces) and Mr. Jinks, the cat.
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hon30critter MisterBeasley 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! Dave
MisterBeasley Cabooses is probably correct, but cabeese works fine here and you will see it often. Personally, I use cabeese.
Come to think of it, I doubt if "bobber" is in the dictionary, either.
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It would be an interesting - though time consuming - project to try to work back who first used the term "cabeese". It definetely started as a joke or play on words in the railfan / model railroad community. I don't think the first person to write it meant it to be a 'real' word, or one that would continue to be used. I started reading Model Railroader in 1971, and I don't recall seeing 'cabeese' in print until many years later, maybe 1980's.
If I had to make an educated guess on who used it first, I would guess John Armstrong, perhaps in an article describing one of his track plans. His plans generally included several puns or plays-on-words for place names, like "Ott Dam".
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wjstix It definetely started as a joke or play on words in the railfan / model railroad community.
Yes,just like "lashup".. In my 9 1/2 years as a brakeman it was always locomotive consist never "lashup".
BRAKIE wjstix It definetely started as a joke or play on words in the railfan / model railroad community. Yes,just like "lashup".. In my 9 1/2 years as a brakeman it was always locomotive consist never "lashup".
By first "lash up" was with a PCM, by BLI, F3 HO A/B NYC set. What is that? And NYC never had a Mars light in the A unit. Realy strange.
Cabeese is another, lol.
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richg1998And NYC never had a Mars light in the A unit. Realy strange.
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I don't know off hand if all eight of the C Liners had mars lights. They didn't keep them very long if they did. Not an F3 obviously, but an A unit just the same
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