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

[sagehen]

>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.
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>>>>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".
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>>However many plural markers "children" has, the dialectal/nonstandard form
>>"childrens" (shown in DARE for example) has one more, I think.
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>>-- Doug Wilson
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I wonder where "chirdren" fits into all this....?  I hear it often enough
that I don't think it's just idiosyncratic.
AM