Mongooses or mongeese?
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340019)
Rockingham, Australia
February 2, 2023 6:23pm CST
MyLotter, Always smiling (@allknowing) wrote about growing sweet potatoes and mentioned that mongooses would dig up her plants. She now has fenced off the plants to keep the pests out. You can catch up here:
In my comment, I wasn’t sure of the plural of ‘mongoose’. Is it mongooses or mongeese? So off I went to search and apparently it’s mongooses. But what amused me was that the heading on the site gave mongoose three ‘o’s in the middle which looked very strange - mongoooses. The word is in big print. You’d think it would have jumped out at someone so it could be corrected.
More proof that you shouldn’t always trust the worldwide web, at least not when it comes to spelling.
Photo courtesy: Michal Sloviak, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Edit: rsa101 (@rsa101) has researched further and mongeese is acceptable as a plural too. But mongoooses or even mongoooooses still isn't! 
https://www.mylot.com/posts/3542358/sweet-potatoes
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@allknowing (136449)
• India
3 Feb 23
Thanks for talking about my poor post (lol)
Mongooses it shall be then but certainly not mongooose (lol)
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@allknowing (136449)
• India
3 Feb 23
@JudyEv Even here at myLot when we see our posts/responses/comments the second time we see howlers but I always edit them but not all users. What thou say to that? (lol)
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@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Feb 23
@allknowing I go back and correct errors - even in comments. I hate having errors in my work.
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@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Feb 23
I don't know much about them. I know they are deadly enemies of snakes.
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Feb 23
I was wondering about that goose vs geese thing with mongooses.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Feb 23
@JudyEv Rabbit hole?? I thought we were discussing mongooses. Are baby mongooses mongoslings?
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@Beestring (14560)
• Hong Kong
3 Feb 23
That's a pretty animal. Can they also be found in Australia?
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@snowy22315 (180770)
• United States
3 Feb 23
Gee, that is really interesting looking. We really don't have a smiliar animal,..closest thing would be a weasel or an ermine and they they are slim and not as chunky.
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@RebeccasFarm (89883)
• Arvada, Colorado
3 Feb 23
I have no idea but I don't like them. Surely they serve a purpose though..
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@RebeccasFarm (89883)
• Arvada, Colorado
3 Feb 23
@JudyEv Yes the could be similar
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@FourWalls (68043)
• United States
3 Feb 23
That’s a pretty animal, mongoose or mongeese or mongooses!
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@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Feb 23
It's a good idea but sometimes (most times) I'm in a rush.
@celticeagle (167017)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Feb 23
I have noticed a lot of errors like this on the web lately. I wonder if it has to do with the speed to get it out on the web nowadays.
@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
3 Feb 23
I would have thought the plural would be mongoose. Interesting what I learn.
@RasmaSandra (79886)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Feb 23
Cute creatures and thank you on the correct plural for them,
@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
3 Feb 23
The mongoose in the picture is a cutie. Thanks for the info on the plural.
