servera'

[James West]

Your source may well use the conventional plural, but what we're talking
about is a number of _written_ sources that use an unequivocal nominative
plural servera'. At least two of the ones I've seen have been in Russian
URLs on the WWW itself, i.e. written by computer types in Russia. Don't
forget that we're dealing with a plural form that is in a quite large
number of cases an alternative to the more usual form among some speakers.

                                                     James West

On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, James Gerhart wrote:

> Who says it's servera'?  I have all of one, but a particularly
> well-qualified source who says _se'rvery_ is the plural of se'rver.
> Perhaps we are disputing what might be, rather than what is.
> Genevra Gerhart
>