singular of chipsy

[Tatyana Buzina]

Klipsy and butsy have two possible singular forms: klips and klipsa, buts and butsa. "Chipsa" would be something straight out of Tove Janssen, though. 
For a long time, there were quite a few people preferring bak and baki to baks and baksy despite ensuing homonymous forms. "Bak" is still around although extremely rare.  

24.02.09, 20:33, "Alina Israeli" <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>:

> I don't understand what Russian soul or Anglo-Saxon soul has to do  
> with it.
> But the model of borrowing has long been established: -s, which is a  
> plural marker in English, become part of the Russian root, and there  
> are many examples:
> keks, f'juchers, kornfleks and others, but more commonly in pluralia  
> tantum: baksy, dzhinsy, even slaksy, bicepsy, klipsy, butsy,
> Ked/kedy is an exception, should have been kedsy.
> AI
> On Feb 24, 2009, at 4:56 AM, John Dunn wrote:
> > Out of curiosity I looked this up in all the various dictionaries I  
> > could lay my hands on, and those that include the word are in  
> > unanimous agreement that чипсы [chipsy] is a plurale tantum.
> >
> > That being the case we owe a debt of gratitude to Kristen  
> > Harkness's waiter, not least because without his robust defence of  
> > the supposedly non-existent singular form we would now be  
> > contemplating once again the contrast between the Russians with  
> > their широкая душа [shirokaia dusha] and the Anglo-Saxons, whose  
> > generosity is dispensed in such carefully measured doses that they  
> > are actually capable of offering someone a single potato crisp.
> >
> > John Dunn.
> >
> >
> Alina Israeli
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> LFS, American University
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