1469: Sabertooths and Saberteeth Dec 20, 2018

Even in compounds, words that are formed in an uncommon way, like 'man' to 'men', tend to stay the same, such as in 'postman' to 'postmen'. However, in the case of 'sabertooth', both 'sabertooths' and 'saberteeth' can be there own words and mean different things. The first refers to multiple of the animal and the second is the actual teeth themselves, becasue 'teeth' is the plural of 'tooth', but in 'sabertooth', the pluralization applies to the word as a whole, because of how a noun in a compound can modify the other in multiple ways.