XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: a24061@ducksburg.com   
      
   On 2011-08-28, Mike Lyle wrote:   
      
   > I'm half inclined to think that may catch on eventually. The folks on   
   > the BBC already say "cannons" as the plural of "cannon". A.U.E. has   
   > often noted that many little lumps and bumps of our language are being   
   > smoothed out: "slayed" instead of "slew", a chciken is most often   
   > "deboned" instead of "boned" -- that kind of thing.   
      
   Well, it is a bit of faff to remember which of those plain verbs refer   
   to removal (boning chickens, stoning olives).  We need a good Germanic   
   prefix equivalent to German "ent-" to disambiguate these things.   
   -)   
      
      
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