Timeline for Pluralization of proper nouns: regular or irregular?
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| Sep 14, 2012 at 15:17 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I shouldn't imagine that Atlas is bothered by the fact that statues commemorating him are labelled atlantes whereas map-books named after him are uncorrupted atlases. (freedictionary): Atlas / Atlantes (statues of the hero); but atlas / atlases (map collections). Joking apart, I suppose that changing the stem of a word to pluralise it is more of a 'corruption' than adding an 's', but it's arguable, and one could argue along similar lines that we should have labelled the two Berlins (East and West) the two Berlinen. Adding an s is selfishly - corruptly? - Anglophile. | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 16:59 | history | answered | aezell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |