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Wiktionary says
In the original result of the Wug Test, children consistently produced wugs for the plural. However, plurals other than the standard wugs are sometimes used humorously, including wuggen (by analogy with oxen), weeg, and wuggi (by analogy with Latinate plurals).
Wuggi sounds nice. Huggy wuggi :3
Wugopodes
That's Greek to me
:3c
Wuggingtons
Wuggi is the first thing that came to muh brain
My immediate thought was wug, like the plural of fish is fish.
Unless you're sleeping with them. Then it's fishes.
It's when there are multiple species of fish. Mob guys are actually saying it correctly, as there are likely multiple types in the ocean when they lay people to rest there.
Or when they are weird
I thought the plural of fish was "wet guys"
This test screwed me up in first grade. I thought it was some kind of grammar test so I kept asking if it was a verb, a noun, or an adverb. The test giver was some researcher and was convinced I wasn't taking the test seriously because I wouldn't say wugs. He got kind of angry and I found the whole thing to be kind of distressing. I asked to stop and he just got even angrier and said something like, "No one has ever had trouble with the wug test before". I was convinced I was bad at grammar for years after that. Anyway, wugs! =)
Sounds like somebody was bad at giving out tests
I mean, that could have been it, but it seemed like everyone else got through unscathed. I was older than average, I was 7 and the rest of the kids were 6. I think that was his explanation anyway.
Based on the sentence construction it has to be a noun regardless of the meaning tho
What a shite researcher. The whole point is to judge children's inferrence - that's why they don't use real words. There is no right answer. There's just an expected answer based on similar words.
Wugs, if its an Anglo root, unless it's derived from Latin "Wug*, wugīs" in which case there are two Wugi (wûg-eye). Unless its one of the random Latin words where we don't do that and it's still "wugs." Unless it's a loanword from germanic then we might anglicise it or we might say "wugar." Because eNgLIsH iS EaSY...
Ooh sorry this is a weird one it’s actually “wugopodes”
unless it’s derived from Latin “Wug*, wugīs” in which case there are two Wugi (wûg-eye).
Wouldn't a wug, wugis group noun be wuges plural?
Of them
This feels like a word that would be both singular and plural. Like sheep.
Two wug.
Only if the amount of wug is a prime number.
This is because non-prime numers of wuggi are unstable and will split into separate prime factors of wug if there's enough space (and in most atmospheric conditions).
Wüge
My daughter does the opposite in such an intelligent way. Kix cereal for example - one piece of it is a kik. And the singular for clothes is a cloe.
And the singular of sheep is shoop.
YES IT IS SHUT UP
Brings new meaning to the Salt-N-Pepa song.
I don't get it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Berko_Gleason
Gleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge children's acquisition of morphological rules—for example, the "default" rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/, or /ɪz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g. hat–hats, eye–eyes, witch–witches. A child is shown simple pictures of a fanciful creature or activity, with a nonsense name, and prompted to complete a statement about it
Wugaux
Wugopodes
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Yeah its a pretty famous demonstration of the fact that we learn grammar seperately from individual words. IE most people add s to the end because thats what we normally do when we have a plural, even though we dont know what a wug is
Yeah I think it's especially construction by analogy with similar words (phonologically or semantically), people tend to say words in a way similar to other words when their mind sees a possible pattern, e.g. if you know it's mug->mugs, hug->hugs, rug->rugs, pug->pugs, tug->tugs, nug->nugs, you think "obviously it's wug->wugs" for -/ʌɡ/ words, especially monosyllabic ones, but also maybe polysyllabic words or words that sound similar in some way but not the same, like -/ɔɡ/, -/ʌk/, -/gʌ/, etc. This also goes for words with somewhat different phonologies but similar semantics, e.g. if you know child(er)->children and broth(er)-> brethren, you'll probably think it would look something like sister->sistren (which is a less common dialectal variant actually). If you know goose->geese, foot->feet, tooth->teeth, you'll probably think it's moose->meese and noose->neece and shoop<-sheep and hoof->heef unless you have a reason to expect irregularity. Or mouse->mice and louse->lice, you'll probably think house->hice and spouse<-spice and blouse->blice.
But if you haven't processed enough words that pluralize in a way other than just appending /s/~/(ə)z/ to the end, you'll of course just think "gooses" and "tooths" and "fishes" and "foots" and stuff. Like what children do. Also common for children to say is "fishies" and "goosies" and anything else with /iz/ added at the end, since singular /i/ and plural /iz/ are common for adults to use as a diminuative/cutesy way of saying them, and the kids pick it up of course.
All these sound cursed, so I'd rather not think about it too much.
Wuggies
Wuggas
There are two plimben
OMG I just learned that there are also bik, kazh, and gutch.
Wugi
Weese
There are two √ﷺ½⚠
Wugwug