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samus12345@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠agoOf course you can, thatâs why oxen, fungi, etc. exist.
Comment on đ Octopus is Octopus đ
samus12345@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠agoOf course you can, thatâs why oxen, fungi, etc. exist.
antonim@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oxen is historically a 100% English plural, just like child-children, it wasnât loaned. (I should check, but Iâm pretty sure itâs the same -en as in German plurals: das Auge, die Augen.)
Some of these Latin plurals can survive for technical terminology. But itâs pretty much only Latin ones, due to the historical prestige. Nobody talks of Soviet apparatchiki, itâs apparatchiks.