Re: [tied] Re: Middle English Plurals

In article <btm9r9+j530@eGroups.com> tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>> I wouldn't pay heed to his shiboleth theories. Besides,
>> it's not as if English has adopted a single plural suffix
>> either.
>
> Most foreigners think so, or they wouldn't have bothered trying to
> learn it. That's why it's good to be a creole.

Hm... I don't quite agree: All of my grandchildren have two feet,
which they used when I took them to the zoo. At the zoo we saw a
demonstration in which sheep were sheared. On the way home we stopped
at a sea-food restaurant where they enjoyed watching fish swim in
an aquarium.

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Brent J. Ermlick Veritas liberabit uos
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