Re: Bit of trivia
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 1:04 |
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:28:32 -0800 Clint Jackson Baker
<litrex1@...> writes:
> I was reading what Christophe had said about irregular
> plurals and I remembered that the "cow/kyne" pair is
> unique in the history of English in that not a single
> letter from the singular was carried over to the
> plural.
> Clint
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I thought that "kine"/"kyne" was a collective, not a simple plural... at
least that's the impression i got from its use in archaic-sounding
English translations of Passover Haggadahs.
-Stephen (Steg)
"mew, meep."
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