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I have a BlackBerry and buy another - I now have two .......?
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> Blackberrys
Okay, 'BlackBerrys' it is (note capital;-) ... everyone happy?
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> Blackberrys
Okay, 'BlackBerrys' it is (note capital;-) ... everyone happy?
Es freut mich that you're posting again, yes. But I think I prefer Mav's "overdrafts." 
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Why not "--Berries"? 
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> I think I prefer Mav's "overdrafts."
Please - take them! :]
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> Why not "--Berries"?
Ah ha, a dissenter! I knew there was one out there. IP, you put forth 'BlackBerrys', so you explanatory services are required. Just why do all product names take '-s' as their plural, regardless of whether the name is a normal word or not? .... this better be good :-)
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I think whats-his-name talks about it in his first book, What's-It-called. That is Chomsky's student who started publishing ten or so years ago, it isn't Pinter is it? I mean, he's a playwright, isn't he? So it must be something else. That guy, with reference to Walkmans. I think its simpler though: Blackberry is a tradename, and Blackberries ain't. And, truth told, I would say "Walkmen," if I didn't have his inadvertent prescription in my ear wigged.
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>I think whats-his-name talks about it in his first book, What's-It-called.
Pinker, The Language Instinct?
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