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How native speakers pronounce “gloms”

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To start with, our plural marker, the adjective 'many', may get used frequently enough to the point where it gloms onto the front of the noun and becomes a prefix. Now we have a plural that's expressed through morphology rather than a separate word.

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

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To start with, our plural marker, the adjective 'many', may get used frequently enough to the point where it gloms onto the front of the noun and becomes a prefix. Now we have a plural that's expressed through morphology rather than a separate word.

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution