hypercorrect pluralization of attributives

[Jonathan Lighter]

I now see that Google Books has hundreds of exx. of "craps game" going back
several decades, but that doesn't make it any less hypercorrect.

I.e., ridiculous.

JL

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> The first of these I noticed was "the jobs market," sometime around 2002.
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> This week's New Yorker contains a review of "Guys & Dolls" in the course of
> which John Lahr (easily old enough to know better) writes not only "craps
> game" but also "floating craps game."
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> Copy editing gone berserk, sez I.
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> JL
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