"Revelations"

[GSCole]

Another 'additional S' example.  Several years ago, in a discussion with
workers in a large automobile factory, the workers consistently referred
to the group of 'foremens' (it was 'men', not 'man').  Early on, to
clarify what I thought that I was hearing, I would attempt a correction,
e.g., "you mean 'foremen'?"  Only to receive a response of the sort,
"no, the foremens, all of them (in that area of the plant)".  The plant
is located in northern Delaware.

George Cole
Shippensburg University