Say Mongooses Please

Stetson was right the etymology

Assures us it’s neither man nor goose in genecology

You can’t conjugate like a comedienne

Mon in mongoose can’t turn to men

One can see the mongoose has no man

None should twist this word for resonance plan

Goose may turn the geese in birds that fly

One cannot say mongeese and this is why

Our cat like creature that scampers around

Spends all it’s time firmly on the ground

Even though it zooms quickly and may

Sometimes disappear like it had flown away

People must stick to the correct conjugation

Language has it own accepted permutation

Exceptions of plurality do exist  

And so deer is deer and sheep, sheep we insist

Stetson was right and Marshall, well, cuh dear!

Everyone who listened yesterday found it hard to hear