Why "children," not "childs"? (2016)

(grammarphobia.com)

6 points | by downbad_ 10 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • jleyank 9 hours ago ago

    I thought languages often had irregular forms of commonly used forms? Perhaps heavy usage delayed or prevented standardization. Childs looks like the apostrophe is missing :-).

  • TacticalCoder 9 hours ago ago

    > and oxan (the original plural of “ox”)

    Sometimes we see PC boxes referred to as "boxen". It's cool (I guess) and not that wrong. Oxan are now oxen. From now on I'll refer to boxes as boxan.