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@D500 posted:

I always liked the low-cupola look of these NYC caboosi (alternative to "cabeese"?).

That's funny!  You have (inadvertently or otherwise) happened upon the reason for the goose-geese vowel change in VERY Old English.  Oversimplification:  an "ee" sound on the end of the word in the original plural mutated the vowel in the middle of the word.  So you just showed us what cabeese would be had the word existed in English ca. AD 500.

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