What 'type' of a word is the word “goings-on”?
I'm not sure how to phrase this correctly, but I noticed that the word "goings-on" has the plural suffix of '-s' before the end of the word. If this wasn't the case, it would be "going-ons" which of course sounds disgusting and just flat-out doesn't work, but I was wondering how you would describe a word like this; what do you call a word that uses a plural suffix before the very end of the word? And are there any other examples of this kind of word?
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I'm not sure how to phrase this correctly, but I noticed that the word "goings-on" has the plural suffix of '-s' before the end of the word. If this wasn't the case, it would be "going-ons" which of course sounds disgusting and just flat-out doesn't work, but I was wondering how you would describe a word like this; what do you call a word that uses a plural suffix before the very end of the word? And are there any other examples of this kind of word?
grammatical-number usage suffixes
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Hint: It's one that’s more like like breakings in or passers by or washings up or puttings out than it is like men at arms or ladies in waiting let alone attorneys general or knights errant, however you care to punctuate any of those.
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I'm not sure how to phrase this correctly, but I noticed that the word "goings-on" has the plural suffix of '-s' before the end of the word. If this wasn't the case, it would be "going-ons" which of course sounds disgusting and just flat-out doesn't work, but I was wondering how you would describe a word like this; what do you call a word that uses a plural suffix before the very end of the word? And are there any other examples of this kind of word?
grammatical-number usage suffixes
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I'm not sure how to phrase this correctly, but I noticed that the word "goings-on" has the plural suffix of '-s' before the end of the word. If this wasn't the case, it would be "going-ons" which of course sounds disgusting and just flat-out doesn't work, but I was wondering how you would describe a word like this; what do you call a word that uses a plural suffix before the very end of the word? And are there any other examples of this kind of word?
grammatical-number usage suffixes
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Hint: It's one that’s more like like breakings in or passers by or washings up or puttings out than it is like men at arms or ladies in waiting let alone attorneys general or knights errant, however you care to punctuate any of those.
– tchrist♦
Dec 19 at 4:05
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Hint: It's one that’s more like like breakings in or passers by or washings up or puttings out than it is like men at arms or ladies in waiting let alone attorneys general or knights errant, however you care to punctuate any of those.
– tchrist♦
Dec 19 at 4:05
Hint: It's one that’s more like like breakings in or passers by or washings up or puttings out than it is like men at arms or ladies in waiting let alone attorneys general or knights errant, however you care to punctuate any of those.
– tchrist♦
Dec 19 at 4:05
Hint: It's one that’s more like like breakings in or passers by or washings up or puttings out than it is like men at arms or ladies in waiting let alone attorneys general or knights errant, however you care to punctuate any of those.
– tchrist♦
Dec 19 at 4:05
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Hint: It's one that’s more like like breakings in or passers by or washings up or puttings out than it is like men at arms or ladies in waiting let alone attorneys general or knights errant, however you care to punctuate any of those.
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