Talk:Broken plural

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This needs translations of the example forms, and a merger with Broken plurals - AnonMoos 03:08, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shrieking Sheiks

It would be better to replace the "sheikh ~ shriek" example with another, clearer one. For example in my dialect (a variant of Northern English English (sic)), whilst "shriek" is pronounced "shreek", "sheikh" is pronounced "shake". My suggestion would be "through ~ trough".

--Twenex 01:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. In fact this whole paragraph reads a bit oddly.

"Full knowledge of these plurals comes with extended exposure to the language. Much like spelling in English, this system has so many special cases that can be known only by reading a lot of Arabic texts. (An example from English spelling: sheik is spelled with "-eik" and shriek with "-iek.")"

The way it's worded seems to suggest that the English spelling system has "so many special cases that" they "can only be known by reading a lot of Arabic texts."

--Dependent Variable