Re: USAGE: irregular plurals (was: minimal pair ...)

--- Tristan <kesuari@...> wrote:
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> >Still sounds totally unnatural, "mouses".
> >
> Probably in the same way that 'books' would sound
> unnatural to someone
> for whom the normal plural of 'book' (or _boc_) was
> 'beech' (or _bec_).
I can see what you mean, but it's not like there was a
new something that _also_ had the name "book" in the
14th century and took a wierd plural "books".

I still think "mouses" must be some kind of
regionalism.

> >If more than one classical music lover has one, it
> >makes perfect sense. One CML = one sweet-tooth;
> many
> >CMLs = many sweet-tooths.
> >
> I still have to disagree...
Would you use "sweet-teeth"? Or as (I think) Nik said,
"sweet-tooth".

> Based on the fact that no-one seems to know what
> it's trying to prove,
> I'll assume that John started on 0 because it was a
> prelude to the rest...
It had to do with uses of "set", if I recall the
example right (it's not in front of me, so I may have
misremembered the details).

> Tristan.
Padraic.


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