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Guess so. But it sure caught on. I've heard it used in numerous countries in Europe, the Far East, South America.
Read the Bryson book and you'll learn very interesting things about the English language. For example, a battle raged in Britain after the French invaded in 1066 over whether to form the plural by adding the letters en as the German language does or the letter s as the French do
According to Bryson, the countryside favored the s and they won. But there are still several words in English we form the plural by adding the letters en. Three of them you use every day
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