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MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: pajamas
• Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:13:57 EST

In a message dated 2004-01-04 2:14:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> So, although "two pajamases" looks weird [btw - is there a plural in
> english?] I believe that one can say {cha' nIvnavmey} and {cha' yopwaHmey}
> 
singular of "pajamas" is "pajama", as in "pajama top" or "pajama party", but 
it's only used in the plural when talking about the garment as a whole.  for 
more than one such garment, i use "pair of pajamas", as in "5 pairs of 
pajamas", which makes "pajama" seem like half of a pair of something, but it's not.  
you can also say "he has lots of pajamas", meaning "lots of pairs of pajamas."  
it's like the word "scissors".  
stevo (aka lay'tel SIvten)

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