[Verse 1]
A goose and a goose is always geese
But a moose and a moose is never meese
Why is theese?
Why not meese?
[Verse 2]
A little baby goose is called a gosling
But the babies of the meese are not called mosling
So puzzling...
Oh, oh, oh, it’s so troubling
[Chorus]
All I want is consistency
[Verse 3]
You get a couple mouse, you call them mice
But your house and my house are not called hice
Is that wice?
Hear my advice
[Chorus]
All I want is consistency
All I need is consistency
[Bridge]
Octopus and platypus
Are Octopi and platypi
But, hippopotamuses
Are not hippopotomi!
Why?
Why, why, why?
Make me cry
[Chorus]
All I want is consistency
All I need is consistency
All I want is 1 and 1 to makе meese
[Outro]
All I want is consistency
Language еvolves with each ebb and flow along the river of time
How, then, can we free ourselves from unnecessary complexities?
Is consistency
Do away with inconsistent dexterities?
Is consistency
I do not pretend to hold the answer, or lead the charge for vocabular enhancement
Is consistency
But let meese stand as an example – a utopian sample – of the world in which we could all live…
If only we try