On Wed, 12 Oct 1994, Eugene Hunn wrote:

Maybe so. But this may be one of those mutations that leads to an
evolutionary dead end...

Gene.

On Tue, 11 Oct 1994, Museum Informatics Project wrote:

> >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
>