Talk:netsukes
Latest comment: 12 years ago by -sche in topic RFV
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The only plural I've ever seen is netsuke -- even w:Netsuke only uses netsuke as the plural. I've changed the netsuke entry accordingly to give the plural form as netsuke, until such time as netsukes can be verified. -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 20:19, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Cited (can we change it back?) from 1898, 1921, 1949: perhaps this is a more dated plural? Equinox ◑ 20:21, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Interesting. Yes, it seems older borrowings from Japanese adopt English plural patterns, whereas more recent borrowings tend to use the plural form from the source language (i.e. the same as the singular). Did you find anything more recent that uses the -s plural? I'll go ahead and add both unchanged and + -s forms as plural to netsuke. -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 20:37, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Anyway, passed as cited (speedily, but was anyone going to argue the citations were bad?); thanks Equinox! - -sche (discuss) 20:45, 12 April 2012 (UTC)