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Re: USAGE: THEORY/USAGE: irregular English plurals (was: RE: [CONLANG]

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, May 23, 2002, 4:37
At 11:39 am -0400 22/5/02, John Cowan wrote:
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>And in any event "deers", "sheeps" are definitely out in all contexts.
Tho one does, in fact, hear "deers" on the lips of British urban-dwellers; for me it always conjure up images of old ladies, until the context makes me realize there talking of cervidae. I regret to say I've even seen "deers" in print - o tempora, o mores! It would, indeed, hearten me to know that "deers" are still definitely out in all contexts your side of the pond. "Sheep" still seem to be safe. I hear "sheeps" or, more often, "sheepses" when people are being deliberately facetious (but if And replied that he heard people using "sheeps" in earnest, I'd not be surprised). Ray. ======================================================= Speech is _poiesis_ and human linguistic articulation is centrally creative. GEORGE STEINER. =======================================================

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