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Very young children are baffled by the question and are unable to answer correctly, sometimes responding with " Two wug.

" Preschoolers aged 4 to 5 test best in dealing with after a voiced consonant, and generally say that there are two wugs, with a ; they do almost as well with the voiceless.

They do less well in dealing with in other environments such as after nasals, rhotics, and vowels.

Children in the first year of primary school were almost fully competent with both and.

Both preschool and first-grade children dealt poorly with, giving the correct answer less than half the time, possibly because it occurs in the most restrictive context.

Also, because the root of the test word often ended in in these cases, the children may have assumed that the word was already in its plural form.

Even though the children were all able to produce the real plural " glasses " they generally responded two " tass " rather than two " tasses " when shown more than one nonsense creature called a " tass ".