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--- On Tue, 5/10/11, Adam Walker <carraxan@hidden.email> wrote: > > Was there ever an *ul cuscus? > See, now, that I don't know. Some experts have assumed so, but barring a > discovery in some monk's marginalia or an unknown early medieval cookbook > surfacing, I don't see it being resolved. Most non-sacred Old C-a texts > were written in Arabic script by Arabs explaining the language of the > plebs to each other, and the paper documents have not survived > particularly well. Ah, a mystery! Are there any other similar words, anciently in -s that got reanalyzed as a plural this way? If there's a whiff of one somewhere in the language, I'm sure two camps with diverging opinons will naturally spring up over the issue! > Adam Padraic