Re: USAGE: THEORY/USAGE: irregular English plurals (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum number of symbols
From: | Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 18:38 |
Hello,
> Well, I know I've at times been caught trying to coin 'shoop' (i.e.
> shoop:sheep) and 'freet' (i.e. fruit:freet), so perhaps -oo-:-ee-. So
> perhaps it's actively irregular.
Better, 'regularly irregular'
Pavel
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