[Lexicog] Re: lexical entries as singulars or plurals

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

I take it that everyone is familiar with the extension of
the English /n/ plural in the computer world?

	VAX		VAXen
	Macintosh	Macintoshen
	Chipmunk	Chipmunken
	Unix box	Unix boxen

I think that the use of this plural is restricted to machines
whose names end in /s/. You can't say *Sunen for Suns
or PCen for PCs.

(Oh, the Chipmunk reference may be a bit obscure. That was the
familiar name for the Hewlett Packard 9836 workstation. There was
a time when I really wanted on.)
	
--
Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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