[PW] Gentlemen's, etc.

[Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)]

The pluralization of attributive nouns (as opposed to possessives) in
English is maddeningly inconsistent.  Why do people say "women lawyers"?
They don't say "boys wonders" or "girls Fridays".  

The most embarrassing example of this is 38 United States Code section
301,  which on March 15, 1989, replaced the "Veterans' Administration"
(an honest, straightforward possessive) with the "Department of Veterans
Affairs", thus creating the only Cabinet department with a grammatical
error in its title.

I guess that's what makes language interesting.

-- Tom, who fortunately is not plural (though most assuredly singular) 

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