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…of them.

I said the last sentence two times for emphasis.

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That doubling rate is worrying

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From Wikipedia for the people like me that are curious

A Nice link to the Wiki Page

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:

This is a WUG. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ________. Each “target” word was a made-up (but plausible-sounding) pseudoword, so that the child cannot have heard it before. A child who knows that the plural of witch is witches may have heard and memorized that pair, but a child responding that the plural of wug (which the child presumably has never heard) is wugs (/wʌgz/, using the /z/ allomorph since “wug” ends in a voiced consonant) has apparently inferred (perhaps unconsciously) the basic rule for forming plurals.

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Thank you!

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I sat here, for like 5 minutes, saying wugs out loud trying to figure out the joke before I clicked through to the comments and saw this lol

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You silly goose! The plural or wug is wagon.

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Thank you, I was confused.

I immediately went to “now there are two wug wugs”.

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Es gibt zwei Wüge.

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Und jetzt machen sie ein kleines Wügchen

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Why nobody says wugs?

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