Persons Who Need Persons

[A. Maberry]

> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Peter McGraw wrote:
>
> > Anyway, said "authority" (who shall remain anonymous because I've
> > forgotten who it was) argued that it was "incorrect" to use "people" as
> > a plural for "person" because the former could not be derived from the
> > latter by adding a suffix.
>

Hmmm. I've never heard that line of "reasoning" before, but maybe I don't
get out enough. According to the "authority" the plural of "goose" would
be ... ?
Has anyone else heard this argument before?

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu