Re: USAGE: THEORY/USAGE: irregular English plurals (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum number of symbols
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 17:02 |
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> For many younger British speakers, perhaps a majority, the plural is
> _oxes_. This fact can be discovered by asking them. It may not show
> up very clearly in a corpus, because those speakers who lack _oxen_
> are also those speakers who are unlikely to talk about the ox.
No, they're in a minority. To me, 'Oxes' sounds strange, maybe a thing a
young child would say. I haven't heard anyone say 'oxes'
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