[Ads-l] hypercorrect pluralization of attributives

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Benjamin Barrett <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The explanation I suggested earlier in this thread is that the language
> faculty is interpreting the first two words as an adjective modifying the
> third word as in a “five-mile walk.”
>

True, but the polloi have annoyingly begun to say and write crap like
"five-miles walk."


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