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

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 28, 2002, 21:28
And Rosta scripsit:

> Fair point. I don't remember ever checking to make sure. I guess I > went by the absence of bemused looks in the class, though after > all the essays I've marked in recent weeks I feel I set too much > store by the absence of bemused looks.
I did a little googling for "oxes", and found the following things: - a band called the Oxes (not too surprising) - the deformed idiom "gore ADJ oxes" (reflecting "whose ox is gored") - "as clumsy (etc.) as oxes" - a learned article explaining all three of these by the bogus semantic-stretch theory (we don't hear why there is no band called the Foots or the Gooses) -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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