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

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> 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.
That's what people do with irregulars: by analogy they sometimes create
new irregulars, in a messy and not really productive way.  Occasionally
these stick, as with dive:dove, shit:shat, and (in some dialects)
twig 'comprehend' : twug.

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