Redundancy--(in defense of "South Yugoslavia")

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:15 AM -0500 11/14/04, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>Eng. "children", with what are historically (but not transparently) three
>>different plural markers.
>
>I see only two. Or is [zero] counted as one of the plural markers somehow?
>Or was there in OE or some ancestral tongue a singular distinct from "cild"?
>
No, I was thinking of OE, in which "childe" occurs as a plural along
with "childer" and the slightly later "child(e)ren".

Larry