[Lexicog] Re: lexical entries as singulars or plurals

[David Tuggy]

Go for it, Fritz! And eat lots of loxen and bageln along the way.

Pox tecum.

--David

Fritz Goerling wrote:

> David,
>  
> I froke out when I read your contribution. 
>
> Will you supervise my dissertation on the irregular plural building of:
>  
> Pock > pocks > pox
> Rock > rocks
> Box   > boxes
> Ox     > oxen
>  
> Fritz
>
>     Another interesting bunch from the singular/plural standpoint is
>     diseases. I understand that "pox" was originally? / at one time? a
>     <snip>
>     This is of course similar to the "potatoes" kind of plurals, where
>     you
>     can say "potatoes is/are one of my favorite foods". And that of
>     course
>     <snip>
>     Anybody remember the Far Side cartoon where a "sketchy" (=
>     suspicious)-looking guy in a trench coat and dark glasses huddles
>     over a
>     table of jars of illicit substances: the creeps, the willies, the
>     shakes, the heebie-jeebies, the fantods, and so forth. There's
>     <snip>
>     Rudy writes (below) that for "sales" "the semantics don't work
>     compositionally". I might have said "doesn't". Another
>     singular/plural
>     mess: the sciences. Physics is a singular, rhetorics would have to be
>     <snip>
>     Anybody out there need some good dissertation topics?
>
>     --David Tuggy
>
>
>
>     Rudolph C Troike wrote:
>
>     <snip> It
>     > would seem difficult to treat these usages as just the simple plural
>     > of "sale", since the semantics don't work compositionally.
>     >
>     >       Rudy Troike
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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