In which Amy regularises plurals

[pne]

Amy will often talk about someone's "feets".

I suppose this is because she knew the irregular plural "feet" from fairly early on, and then when she later acquired the regular plural marker -s, she tacked it on for good measure, thus marking the plural twice.

It reminded me of Klingon children talking about ngopmey ("plateses", or something like that—tacking on the regular plural marker -mey to the suppletive plural ngop "plates" of jengva' "plate"). Or, for that matter, Dutch children talking about kinderen and eieren, which have two plural markers, too: -er-en. (As does English child-r-en; compare German Kinder with only the -er plural marker.)

Comments

[bluewingedcat.livejournal.com]

...I say feetses...

It's probably a mostly western thing, but I know out in the PNW, english has taken on a bit of a "chibi anime" tinge to it. So you get strange little words and phrases like "feetses" because it sounds cuter.

[conuly]

A lot of people say feetses when talking to toddlers and babies around here. Not me, though - it sounds like feces to me, which is something *else* associated with toddlers and babies.

[bluewingedcat.livejournal.com]

Bah. Party pooper.

[conuly]

I used to say that, but now I hear the word poop, and all I think of is... well, you know.