PLURAL VERSION OF A WORD

    Words of single items and words for more than one of those items are often not the same words. For instance a single page in a book is a page but more than one page are pages (just one simple example). 

    I was thinking about the word goose and how the sound of that word, for the plural, was changed more than the addition of an s at the end. If the plural of goose is geese, why isn’t the plural of moose “meese”? The word goose existed in the Anglo-Saxon language for centuries and had, back then, been given the plural version. But the word moose was only in the English language in the 1600s because the Anglo-Saxons didn’t know it existed until then. The word moose was from the Abenaki language in North America. 

     This got me thinking of a way to bring this into a wood engraving and the result was to bring two geese and two moose together withe same spelling rule.  I'm engraving a block which will be printed and titled "TWO GEESE RIDING TWO MEESE"?    

                                                  

     I have engraved this block to a a point where I have printed the first proof and when it was dry I scanned it. Here's a copy. 

As I've mentioned in previous pages of the blog, my studio work has slowed dramatically. I have added years to my carcass and that has come at a price. (edition of 30 print size: 7 X 5 in.) $100.00 Click on the image to get a larger view