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Grammar trivia : "the Hoi polloi" contains redundancy, since "Hoi" duplicates the "the".
by mdda 14y ago
Grammar trivia : "the Hoi polloi" contains redundancy, since "Hoi" duplicates the "the".
- lsb 14y agoGrammar trivia: "children" contains redundancy, a doubled plural. The germanic plural of "child" is "childer", and that didn't sound plural enough, so they added the -en that pluralized such fine words as ox -> oxen, and child-er-en then sounded correct.