Jay F Shachter wrote: > The only other example I can think of, of a phrase inflecting > similarly -- and it is a poor example -- is "talmid xakham", which > pluralizes as "talmidei xakhamim" rather than "talmidei xakham". The Rambam, who was a grammarian (need I complete the quotation?), generally uses the singular "talmid hahamim". David Riceman