Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)
| From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 21:27 |
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Matt Pearson wrote:
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> Growing up, I had a facetious plural for "toothbrush", namely "toothbreesh". It
> always seemed reasonable, even though I can't think of any actual irregular
> plurals on that pattern.
Hmm - it's not too far removed from "goose"/"geese" - hypothetically, if
the combination with "tooth" caused the vowel in "brush" to become
unstresses & thus reduce, (I'm not sayind that it did - just
hypothetically) than that's not infeasible.
--
Robert