[Corpora-List] Full list of irregular English plurals

[Alexander S. Yeh]

Brett Reynolds wrote:
> The unedited list linked to below includes words tagged NN2 in the  
> COCA that occur more than 5 times. There are about 1650, and roughly  
> 20% of those are different kinds of men, women, and children (e.g.,  
> madmen, charwomen, foster-children).

I think this implies that one may never find "the full" list,
because as new nouns or adjectives get created, one can
then create nouns of the form:

"Xman", "Xwoman" (where X is a new noun or adjective)
which in the plural form become "Xmen", "Xwomen"

Thanks
-Alex


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> <http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub? 
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> 
> Best,
> Brett
> 
> <http://english-jack.blogspot.com>
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> Brett Reynolds
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> Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
> Toronto, Ontario, Canada
> brett.reynolds at humber.ca
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