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

[Dennis R. Preston]

Ain't DARE got "childrenses"? (Not a possessive.) One more.

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>>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


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