Re: USAGE: NATLANG: I've Gots An English Question
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 22, 2003, 18:49 |
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At 12:09 22.6.2003 -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
>So then what dialect of English *adds* final |-s|s where Standard
>American says they don't belong?
Some traditional British English dialects have generalized -s
throughout the present tense.
Then there is Gollum having 'Hobbitses' for the gentive plural.
I'm sure JRRT didn't make that up himself (or should I say
"hisself"? :-)
/BP 8^)
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