Reduplicated plural
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A reduplicated plural is a grammatical form achieved by the superfluous use of a second plural ending.
In
African American Vernacular English, New York Latino English, and in some other rarer forms of American English, often in specific lexical items, such as testes /tɛstɪz/ rather than tests /tɛsts/
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Donald Mackenzie suggests that in Kipling's in fairies was formed as a Sussex reduplicated plural.[2]
In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the character Gollum speaks with reduplicated plurals, often complaining about "sneaky little hobbitses".
References
- ^
Parish, W.D. (1877). A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex. Lewes: Farncombe & Co. p. 18.
reduplicated plural sussex.
- ^ "Dymchurch Flit", Donald Mackenzie
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