Re: Langmaker down since January?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2008, 16:42 |
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> Hiatus is a fourth declension noun
> in Latin. Its English plural is _hiatuses_.
> (why not hiatus-hiatus when series-series?)
IME, English speakers, as a rule, dislike invariant plurals, and the
direction of language change is toward having fewer of them. The word
"serieses" already gets 55k Ghits...
And then there's "chassis", whose pronunciation changes in the plural
even though the spelling doesn't... gaaah.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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