News reader:

[Wilson Gray]

"Hoofs" is acceptable?! Don't tell me that!

-Wilson

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
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> I don't recall that earlier discussion, so I don't know if
> this was included: While the plural of roof is roofs, the
> plural of hoof is, or can be, hooves. (Hoofs is acceptable,
> as well.)
> How come?
> dh
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> Poster:       "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
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> On May 22, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> "The tornado ripped _rooves_ off buildings."
> "_Rooves_" appears to be becoming more and more common.
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> more common since our last discussion of the form in february?
> arnold
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