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tepilhuan; from pilli, boy, girl, child, young person, with the relative, indefinite, pronominal prefix te, and the pronominal plural termination huan, to take which, pilli drops its last syllable, li; hence, te-pil-huan, somebody's children, or in general, the young people. This word is of constant occurrence in the songs.
Quâ finite and plural its accounts of itself to itself are different from what its account to itself quâ infinite and one must be.
It's a wonder she took a Jewess into her service. 'Where's the wonder? Don't the Southerners have negro servants? she asked quietly. His flush deepened. 'You compare Jews to negroes! 'I apologize to the negroes. The blacks have at least Liberia. There is a black President, a black Parliament. We have nothing, nothing! 'We! Again that ambiguous plural.
I was irritated by her use of the plural pronoun, for she had no right to pair herself with her brother; and moreover, of course, I could not see my way to include Mrs. Ambient. But there was no doubt that, for that matter, they were all remarkable, and, with all allowances, I had never heard anything so artistic.
I told him to keep his plural fingers off of Lost Chief Creek, or he would lose more than an old red bull." "Right-o!" grunted Charleton. "Are you going to ask Scott to let Nelson use his trail, Peter?" asked Inez. "Sure! Why not?" laughed Peter. "You will make Scott sore at you," replied Inez. "I haven't any quarrel with Scott myself, but I know he has a mean streak in him.
After a discussion manifesting the irritation which existed, the resolution was amended, by changing the word "treaties" from the plural to the singular number, and by striking out the words "Dey and Regency of Algiers, the King of Great Britain, and certain Indian tribes north-west of the river Ohio," so that only the treaty with the King of Spain remained to be considered. Mr.
"That's two shilling short o' nineteen pound," said Captain Hunken. "I thank you, sir" Mrs Bowldler made obeisance "but I have an attachment to guineas." She identified herself with her employers by speaking of them in the first person plural: "No, we do not dress for dinner.
And, finally, when the evil circle spread to the man on the fringe of the Church who could not obtain even such poor authorization for his perfidy he found a way to perpetrate a pretended plural marriage with his victim, and the Church authorities did not dare but protect him.
Parsons finds the less that the purpose of these limited remarks is to hint at our own trouvailles. A view of the field, at any rate, would be incomplete without such specimens as the three charming oil-pictures which commemorate Holme Lacey. There are gardens and gardens, and these represent the sort that are always spoken of in the plural and most arrogate the title.
If every noun plural in English were of the type of book: books, if there were not such conflicting patterns as deer: deer, ox: oxen, goose: geese to complicate the general form picture of plurality, there is little doubt that the fusion of the elements book and -s into the unified word books would be felt as a little less complete than it actually is.
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