It the just sounds wrong. It's like listening to British broadcast saying someone is "in hospital" without the "the," although American broadcasters are picking up that phraseology (just like when the idiots learned "attorneys general" instead of "attorney generals" and went out of their way to use it.)
Nope. I was saying that when one of them figured it out, suddenly they were all saying it often and with an air of pride that they now knew how to properly say the plural. I wish I could recall the specific issue the states' attorneys general were uniting on that pushed this to the forefront. When the issue first hit, "attorney generals" was the common utterance.
I think we should all go back to Elizabethian or Victorian 3rd person English. Sticks and stones canst break our bones but thine words shalt never hurt us.
According to my grown kids you'd have false teeth if you hung around with us very long. We have been in the woods too long. Plus my idea of living after I raised mine was helping raise daughters since they worked all the time ,sons family was in Texas, Now the kids have the nerve to correct our grammar. It has been 35 years since we were sociable with people our age. Use it or lose it. Maybe I never had it?