I thought languages often had irregular forms of commonly used forms? Perhaps heavy usage delayed or prevented standardization. Childs looks like the apostrophe is missing :-).
TacticalCoder an hour ago
> and oxan (the original plural of “ox”)
Sometimes we see PC boxes referred to as "boxen". It's cool (I guess) and not that wrong. Oxan are now oxen. From now on I'll refer to boxes as boxan.
