In very formal situations, double plural second-person " sizler " may be used to refer to a much-respected person.
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In the imperative, there are three forms : second person singular for informal, second person plural for formal, and double plural second person for very formal situations.
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"wife " is also found with the more regular plural . is sometimes found with the double plural . " parent, ancestor " is also found with the undoubled plural.
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For the case when two different plural endings have historically been added onto a word ( but one of them is no longer synchronically felt to have plural force, or even to be a distinct morpheme ), see Double plural.
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If " bad " derivations really were to be avoided, we should all be saying " childer " instead of " children " because children is a double plural .-- "'lee 18 : 58, 26 November 2007 ( UTC)
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Occasionally, with human nouns and nouns normally taking only ??? double plurals were formed using both the suffixes e . g . ??( person ) + ???+ ???= ???????( people ).
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I also suspect the justification you use for " femmes fatale " is flawed; it would never be correct to write " attorneys-generals ", or " brothers-in-laws ", yet the double plural " is " a legitimate option for " femmes fatales " ( some would say the only really correct option ).
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I'm a bit boggled that McC, having argued ( at considerable length ) for the article on " sports, plural, played with a cue " to be at cue sport ( no, really ! ) is now arguing ( at increasingly corresponding length ) that a stub article, very likely to be particular to " one " such sport, should be at the " double plural " ( or to be somewhat fairer, plural-style collective ).
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The ancient plural of " child " was " cildra / cildru ", to which an "-en " suffix was later added when the "-ra " / "-ru " became unproductive; the Dutch plural form " kind-er-en " and the corresponding Zeelandic form " kind-er-s " are also double plurals which were formed in the same way as the English double plurals, while for example German and Limburgian have ( historically conservative ) single plurals such as " Kind-er ".
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The ancient plural of " child " was " cildra / cildru ", to which an "-en " suffix was later added when the "-ra " / "-ru " became unproductive; the Dutch plural form " kind-er-en " and the corresponding Zeelandic form " kind-er-s " are also double plurals which were formed in the same way as the English double plurals, while for example German and Limburgian have ( historically conservative ) single plurals such as " Kind-er ".
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