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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: Personal pronouns, antecedents and number agreement
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References: <1994Oct5.181937.33867@waikato.ac.nz> <1994Oct17.162809.1@ctdvx5.priv.ornl.gov> <bmoore-181094115012@bmoore.qualcomm.com> <38fric$gd4@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 11:08:00 GMT
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In article <38fric$gd4@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>,
BAKER Gregory David <s3027272@titanic.mpce.mq.edu.au> wrote:
>Holoholona (bmoore@qualcomm.com) wrote:
>: i'll bet y'all didn't know that there is a plural form of "y'all" too,
>: didja?
>
>An interesting point.  What other words have plural which themselves have 
>plurals?

I can think of a Dutch example and a couple (dual!) of Russian ones:

Du. schoen "shoe", pl. "schoenen" (the old for was "schoe", pl. "schoen")
(Shoes almost always come in pairs, pl. becomes sg.)

Ru. Eskimos "Eskimo", pl. Eskimosy
    dzhins "jeans (1)", pl. dzhinsy
(Foreign words used mostly in the plural, native pl. -y appended to
foreign -s suffix).

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