Why is it attorneys general and not attorney generals?
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“Attorney” is the noun, there’s several attorneys. What kind of attorney? Attorney general, as opposed to, say, a district attorney. Putting the adjective after the noun is irregular (“weird”) in English but we still do it sometimes, especially for titles that have existed for a long time. This is one example. We do the same thing with the highest medical position in the Federal Government, the Surgeon General – “Many surgeons general have spoken about the dangers of smoking.”
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