Substantivized Adjectives
Otto Jespersen · 2013
A six-penny magazine will be spoken of by journalists and booksellers as a sixpenny (Rev. of Reviews 1890, 154 A new sixpenny, the Paternoster Review, will be published early in Octoher); and this new noun forms a regular plural, the sixpennies. I know of no other language utilizing beautifully such simple methods of plural formation as we see in the English series: six pennies-B&s;ixpencesixpences-a sixpenny-sixpennies.