Persons Who Need Persons

[Peter McGraw]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:52:19 -0700 "A. Maberry"
<maberry at U.WASHINGTON.EDU> wrote:

> > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Peter McGraw wrote:
> >
> > > Anyway, said "authority" (who shall remain anonymous because I've
> > > forgotten who it was) argued that it was "incorrect" to use
> "people" as > > a plural for "person" because the former could not be
> derived from the > > latter by adding a suffix.
> >
>
> Hmmm. I've never heard that line of "reasoning" before, but maybe I
> don't get out enough. According to the "authority" the plural of
> "goose" would be ... ?

I don't know.  He probably just contented himself with gnashing his
teeth whenever he came to that one.

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Peter A. McGraw
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
pmcgraw at linfield.edu