Talk:ewe

I'm fairly sure that the trivia point is incorrect. I believe that, like 'ewe' and 'you', 'eye' and 'I' are homophones in Modern English which share no common letters.--218.215.8.20 10:15, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Plural without an "s"

Is the plural without an "s" common? Is it exclusively American? The plural in British English has had an "s" for at least six hundred years! Dbfirs 16:50, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Collins prefers "ewe", as does MW. Encarta North American shows only "ewes". WNW prefers "ewes". Most of the others don't show a plural which probably means they view it as regular: "ewes". I can't tell whether the Collins edition I see via OneLook is a US edition, but it doesn't seem so. I read somewhere that they have newspaperman's bias toward shorter forms to save space. DCDuring TALK 17:49, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Are these not for "Ewe" (the Ewe people)? As far as I can tell, the plural of the female sheep has always had an "s". I can't find the entries without an "s" in either Collins or M-W. Dbfirs 12:58, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

My face is red. You are correct. I'm sorry to have caused you to have wasted time. Talk about tunnel vision: I guess I didn't look at the definition or the capital E on the inflection line. DCDuring TALK 14:08, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Don't worry, I was confused for a while until I spotted the capital letters. (I make mistakes like that with worryingly increasing frequency!) Dbfirs 15:45, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Missing source

As in many more cases, I miss the source(s) for the etymological informations. Is the author unaware of the many existing ones, or does he simply mean that he has the "only true" one?2A02:8108:9640:AC3:6C5D:D130:FBD9:40F9 07:19, 14 June 2019 (UTC)