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

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>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".

However many plural markers "children" has, the dialectal/nonstandard form
"childrens" (shown in DARE for example) has one more, I think.

-- Doug Wilson