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From: db@cstvax.UUCP (Dave Berry)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Use of "Vaxen" as plural
Message-ID: <294@cstvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 02:35:55 EDT
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In article <6454@boring.UUCP> steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) writes:
>Actually, rather than leaking into English from German, -en plurals is a
>feature of Old English, which has only survived in 3 words: children,
>brethren and oxen. 

What about 'men' & 'women'?  I realise they're not quite the same pattern,
but they seem similar.
BTW, what IS the plural of 'vixen' (with an 'i')?
-- 
	Dave Berry. CS postgrad, Univ. of Edinburgh		
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