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From: mcguire@aero.ARPA (Rod McGuire)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Non-words we already know the meanings of
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 19:21:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 19:21:57 1985
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In article <120@oberon.UUCP> blarson@oberon.UUCP (Bob Larson) writes:

>What about the lost singulars?  Perhap there isn't one.

There are the non existant "semantic" singulars: underpant, tweezer, scissor,
and glass (1/2 of a pair of eye-glasses).

One might also be able to make a case for phonetic singulars such as
a "gee" = one of the members of a flock of geese.


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