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Re: irregularities

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 9:12
David Peterson wrote:
> Harkening back to Arabic, body parts that naturally come in pairs > take the feminine *singular*: Eyes, ears, legs, arms, breasts (probably > why it takes the feminite), and body parts that come in singles take > masculine singular (again, this can be guessed). . . .
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