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| Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific, Footprint Pub. 1992 |
Apparently the name caboose is derived from the Dutch word Kabuis meaning ships galley. When we were kids we always counted train cars on a train and the caboose was the period on the sentence. Sad to see them replaced by the awkward acronym EOT, End of Train device. In Canada that probably happened about 1990, someone will know exactly when...
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I apologize. But isn't the plural "cabeese"?
Like moose and meese?
What? No, not like that at all. Jeeze.
cabusessesssesesses.
Moose (Scots) and meeces, surely? (I hates meeces to pieces). D.
"caboosi"
Latin;Nominative and accusative cases of neuter nouns are always the same. The plural always ends in '-a'. Accusative singular for masculine and feminine nouns always ends in '-m'; accusative plural for masculine and feminine nouns always ends in '-s'. Genitive plural of all declensions ends in '-um'.
Of course, the Romans never had trains.
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