Re: Lord of the Rings movie
| From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 4:42 |
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Cian Ross <cian@...> writes:
> On 12/15/01 at 10:15 PM David Peterson wrote:
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> > Sorry to nab this out of context, but what is Lothlorien?
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> Lothlorien (in LoTR) is basically a whole forest of tree-houses.... :)
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> [ObSomething: why isn't the plural of tree-house tree-hice? :)]
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> Cian
Well, because the plural of "hus" in Old Enlgish was "hus" or at the very least
"husas" and not "hys".
That is to say, just because the word "mus" "mouse" (plural: mys) had a strange
plural didn't mean other similar words had to have the same strange plural.
Elliott