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:
- batmans
- batmen
- batmens
- batfolk
- batfolks
- batpeople
- batpeoples
- batpersons
- batsmans
- batsmen
- batsmens
- batsfolk
- batsfolks
- batspeople
- batspeoples
- batspersons
- shriekmans
- shriekmen
- shriekmens
- shriekfolk
- shriekfolks
- shriekpeople
- shriekpeoples
- shriekpersons
- cauldronmans
- cauldronmen
- cauldronmens
- cauldronfolk
- cauldronfolks
- cauldronpeople
- cauldronpeoples
- cauldronpersons
- colonymans
- colonymen
- colonymens
- colonyfolk
- colonyfolks
- colonypeople
- colonypeoples
- colonypersons
Of course, dzwdz pointed out that Oglaf had already solved the problem.....