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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