@knoxstudy: Children is an outrageous double plural, but AAVE has gone one step further to get a hat-trick of pluralisation. #etymology #etymologytok #linguistics #language #interestingfacts
Re: triple plurals, that’s like how people say candelabras, when candelabra is already the plural of candelabrum. Ditto criteria / criterion and other “a” plurals - you can’t then add an “s” but people do.
2024-12-23 12:02:17
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Dan Thomas 🇬🇧 :
Wonder if childer is cognate with kinder
2024-12-23 12:54:34
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Laughing Professor :
Thank you. How do you know all this?
2024-12-23 20:21:28
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Bina 🇧🇪 :
Same in Dutch vs German.. kind/kinderen vs kind/kinder
2024-12-23 07:55:07
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martinwalsh267 :
I've heard 'childer ' used many times in Dublin and not in a jokey way.
2024-12-27 17:31:43
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Coherent Jock :
My grandad, from Glasgow called more than one child, childer. As you say in quite a jokey way...
2024-12-23 17:29:33
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prash :
I'm jumping on the childrens bandwagon now then
2024-12-23 09:07:44
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Martin Liversage :
Probably not related but in Danish the common plural ending is -er. However, child is irregular so it's barn/børn, not barn/barner. 😀
2024-12-22 22:36:50
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