batsmens

We were talking on #town about the plural of batman. I thought it would be simple—is it batmen, batsmen, or batsman? But of course that's leaving out batsmans, so I had to write a script to get all of the permutations:

for b in bat bats; do
  for m in mans men mens; do
    echo $b$m
  done
done

Oh, but we forgot batfolk! And while we're at it, dozens mentioned that

a group of bats is called a shriek, a cauldron, or a colony

so here's the updated script:

for b in bat bats shriek cauldron colony; do
  for m in mans men mens folk folks people peoples persons; do
    echo $b$m
  done
done

This gives us the final, canonical output:

1. batmans
2. batmen
3. batmens
4. batfolk
5. batfolks
6. batpeople
7. batpeoples
8. batpersons
9. batsmans
10. batsmen
11. batsmens
12. batsfolk
13. batsfolks
14. batspeople
15. batspeoples
16. batspersons
17. shriekmans
18. shriekmen
19. shriekmens
20. shriekfolk
21. shriekfolks
22. shriekpeople
23. shriekpeoples
24. shriekpersons
25. cauldronmans
26. cauldronmen
27. cauldronmens
28. cauldronfolk
29. cauldronfolks
30. cauldronpeople
31. cauldronpeoples
32. cauldronpersons
33. colonymans
34. colonymen
35. colonymens
36. colonyfolk
37. colonyfolks
38. colonypeople
39. colonypeoples
40. colonypersons

Of course, dzwdz pointed out that Oglaf had already solved the problem.....

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