Styling moose
Aug. 14th, 2005 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webofevilYour handy moose/elk ready reckoner:
1. What the US (and Canada) call a moose:
... the Norwegians (and Swedes, Danes, half of Finland etc) call an elk.
2. What the US (and Canada) call an elk:
... God knows what the Scandinavians call that.
Incidentally, the Latin name for the so-called “moose” is alces alces—from which the animal will surely have derived its TRUE name, “Elk”. It's not called moosus moosus, is it? Thus the Scandinavians win.
1. What the US (and Canada) call a moose:
... the Norwegians (and Swedes, Danes, half of Finland etc) call an elk.
2. What the US (and Canada) call an elk:
... God knows what the Scandinavians call that.
Incidentally, the Latin name for the so-called “moose” is alces alces—from which the animal will surely have derived its TRUE name, “Elk”. It's not called moosus moosus, is it? Thus the Scandinavians win.
