>Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 10:03:34 -0700
>From: Eugene Hunn <hunn at u.washington.edu>

>On another issue of language: I have noticed a tendency (which I find
>slightly irritating) to leave of the "-s" in pluralizing bird names
>.. What do you all think?

What!???!! Our American English is evolving (devolving? revolving?) right
under this anthropologist's linguistic nose (huh?), and he's "irritated"?

I say "Five lash for you!"
Peter