I want to add my thanks to Bill Spruiell for his well reasoned post 
concerning the discoverability of the word classes and to thank him for his attempt to 
maintain a tone that is respectful on this list.   

Paul's reply seems to indicate his failure to understand the points Bill made 
rather than the other way around.   Bill did not mention "trifling matters 
such as irregular plurals."   He pointed out that large classes of words that 
are normally considered nouns are not pluralizable, which is quite different 
from being "irregular" in the formation of their plurals.  



Peter Adams

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