Example 16-36

uman - umɛn
uman
woman
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umɛn
woman.pl
woman - women
Comment:
Other than in the major standard varieties of English, the Ghanaian Pidgin English plural of woman can be indicated by the change of the vowel in the second rather than the first syllable, in analogy to man-men. (The other possibilty is zero-marking.)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork