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I wanted to say that a yoke joins the neck of two... oxes or oxen? And why?
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The town of Oxford used to be known as Oxenford, by the way. |
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I've seen in a dictionary "oxes" as plural. Maybe it's wrong.
Isn't the plural of brother "brothers"? Thanks. |
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If you are yoking two animals together, then they are two oxen. However, if you are using the word figuratively as a clumsy animal, and, say, comparing humans with them, then it is possible to say 'these two people are behaving like oxes' The normal plural of brother is brothers: He has two brothers and two sisters. But some words have two plurals with subtle differences: bretheren is used for a group of men who consider themselves as brothers in the sense of close attachment, usually to some religious belief. For example, the Plymouth Bretheren Last edited by Perikles; April 29, 2010 at 03:08 AM. |
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This is the same as explaining which is the plural of ají. Ajíses or ajíes.
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"Brethren" is how I would spell it (and the Firefox dictionary agrees with me).
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So does everybody else, including the Plymouth Brethren themselves and the SOED. I can't think where I got my spelling from.
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So it might be offensive to say Oxesford.
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