twoth

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:42 AM -0500 1/17/08, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 1/17/2008 11:27 AM, Hillary Brown wrote:
>>New word (to me, anyway):
>>http://hipstersprogress.blogspot.com/2008/01/introducing-twoth.html
>
>Thank heaven this is not likely to lead to oneth and thirdth.


No, no:  it's *threeth*!

(And it's too late to head it off completely--2150 g-hits.  Of course
this is the sort of over-regularization bound to come up in kids'
speech, so at least you can complain that it sounds childish.)

LH

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