Why is it attorneys general and not attorney generals?
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In “Attorney General” the word “general” is an adjective.
In English we normally put the adjective before the noun, so we’re used to pluralizing the second word in a phrase.
So we’d say “Blue boats”. not “Blues boat”.
“Attorney General” is one of those rare cases in English where we put the adjective after the noun. In fact, it’s so uncommon, it tends to be the first example in most explanations of the phenomenon. “General” in this case is not the military rank, it’s the adjective.
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