I was not saying that the apostrophized plural was wrong, Jack. I see it used quite often.
With "walkman", I personally prefer "walkmen" as plural. But with "goofball", should we go with "goofbell"?
:-)
John
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, jack Watt <jacks6cats@...> wrote:
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> ok, so in my excitement I added an apostrophe. Mea culpa.
> JACK
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> Subject: [OliveStarlightOrchestra] Re: iPod vs. Walkman (Keith, Alex, Dean . . . and everyone)
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> Hm. What is the plural of "walkman" ?
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> 1) walkman's
> 2) walkmans
> 3) walkmen
> 4) walksman
> 5) walksmen
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> John
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> --- In OliveStarlightOrche stra_at_yahoogroups .com, jack Watt <jacks6cats@ ...> wrote:
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> > Awesome! I still own three walkman's of varying quality--mainly because I need somewhere to play my Industrial Waist tape! lol Ah, those were the days. I can remember carrying a giant boom box around the promenade prior to the walkman. And now I have an Ipod. The Ipod is so much more user friendly!
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> > Oh, holy shit; this is so cool:
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> > "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the
> > tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the
> > metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later
> > I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types
> > of cassette."
> > Loves it. Coonsie: you want to loan the kid your film camera?
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