Fake Latin plural . . .

[Wilson Gray]

It was Prof. Hamp who publishedthe paper deriving "twat" from "thwait(e)."
Thanks, Barbara. I've been trying to recall the author's name for years. I
remember that he was the president of the LSA in 1971 and that he taught at
the U of Chi, but, for some reason, I could never recall his name.

-Wilson

On 5/20/06, Barbara Need <nee1 at midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       Barbara Need <nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
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> >As undergraduates, my friends and I had fun with plurals
> >like "kleenices"
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> Eric Hamp's regular plural for Kleenex(TM). (Or so he claims.)
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> Barbara Need
> UChicago
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> >and "tampices."
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> >And then there's the plural of "process" pronounced
> >/pro s@ siz/ (with secondary stress on the final syllable),
> >which I used to associate with the speech of pretentious
> >pseudo-intellectuals, but now it sounds almost normal (maybe
> >I am becoming one of those!).
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> >--Charlie
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> >>Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
> >>Subject:      Re: Fake Latin plural . . .
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> >>On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Chris F. Waigl
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> >>>  I had to make an effort the other day to remain silent
> >when someone came up with "linii" (context: installing two
> >different flavours of them side by side).
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> >>Really. Any idiot knows it's "linices".
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> >>:-)
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> >>Jesse Sheidlower
> >>OED
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