On Sunday, May 10, 2020 4:46:27 PM EDT John Nichols wrote:
>    4. A llath is a great UK unit – it is legal in the UK so I tell me
>    students it is acceptable here

What is the plural of "llath"? There is no entry in Wiktionary, though there 
are links to it.

Another unit one could use in such a test is "arshin". You could take points 
off for the wrong form of the word. Using nouns with numbers in Russian is 
complicated, and Russian retains separate dative and accusative cases (and a 
locative/prepositional, which was lost in Proto-Germanic), which in English 
merged (into the dative) shortly after the end of Old English.

Pierre
-- 
The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.



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