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Re:How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item... by sakebomb on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @02:00PM (#18709458)
Alexa, please tell me about the...

Attorneys general Senators elect

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Re:How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item... by ksenzee on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:28PM (#18710233)
The difference is that these are phrases with adjectives, not nouns being used adjectivally.
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Re:How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item... by a1369209993 on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @04:27PM (#18710746)
"Attorney generals" is a noun phrase (admittedly of questionable adjectivity). "Attorneys general" is a blind idiot translation of a phrase in a language with different grammatical rules (Latin, IIRC).
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Re:How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item... by gowld on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @05:01PM (#18710987)
"Attorney" is a noun. "General" as used here is an adjective. It's unusual in that the adjective follows the noun without a hyphen, but it's common enough, and it's where prepositional phrases are seen, like "Big man on campus" and "powers that be".

Did ancient Romans have attorneys general?

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