Re: ?? Re: a "natural language" ?
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 4, 2004, 7:04 |
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On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:35:35 -0600, Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> wrote:
> Or better: 'person' and its suppletive plural 'people'. ('Persons'
> exists, but only in Bureaucratese.)
And there's also the plural "peoples", which regularly confuses
learners of English when they hear about it. ("What? But 'people' is
already plural? You mean that word has *another* plural?"
*head-explodey*)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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