buttockses

[Laurence Horn]

>Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>>Cf. "bollox"/"bollix"...
>>
>>And while we're on double plurals for body parts, what about
>>"breasteses" (and variants thereof)?
>>
>
>Well, "breastses" gives you a hell of a consonant cluster. However, I
>see a handful of hits for "pantses" as in, pants of several people.
>
Somehow I keep hearing Gollum's voice intoning "What has it got in
its pocketses?"

LH

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