[Beowulf] "Code" vs. "Codes"

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Mon Mar 31 17:28:24 PDT 2008


English has super-plurals:

http://d.a.nicolas.free.fr/research/Linnebo-Nicolas-Superplurals.pdf

rgb knows this, but he was pretending like he doesn't use "all-y'all"
all the time...

Anyway, the reason I suggested the OED is that they often have early
usage quotes, which may well include examples of 'codes'. I can only
access the free version, which shows that they do have the definition,
but doesn't include the examples.

-- greg



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