Why is it attorneys general And not attorney generals? Brothers in law and not brother in laws?

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Why is it attorneys general And not attorney generals? Brothers in law and not brother in laws?

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Because they are attorneys who have a general (I.e. overall, i.e. public) responsibility. And because they are brothers… English (unlike Spanish, French or Serbian) does not require adjectives to take the number (or gender or case) of the noun it modifies.

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