Re: USAGE: THEORY/USAGE: irregular English plurals (was: RE:

> Can you cope with "Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam,
> where the deer and the antelope play?"  This is the example that
> convinced me that "antelope" pl. is O.K.
To me, that indicattes that "the deer and  the antelope" is a set of two,
which makes the plural. Like, "where they two play."

 I think deer can be used as plural on its own, but I've always heard
antelope used as singular.

-Kendra
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: THEORY/USAGE: irregular English plurals (was: RE:


> Nik Taylor scripsit:
>
> > Buffalo yes, antelope, I wouldn't say "the antelope are", but it's not
> > completely ungrammatical for me; wildebeest, I think so.
>
>
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>