buttockses

Chris F Waigl chris at LASCRIBE.NET
Sun Feb 10 21:19:01 UTC 2008


Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> Cf. "bollox"/"bollix"...
>
> And while we're on double plurals for body parts, what about
> "breasteses" (and variants thereof)?
>

Well, "breastses" gives you a hell of a consonant cluster. However, I
see a handful of hits for "pantses" as in, pants of several people.

Chris Waigl

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