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This reminds me of my favorite Onion article: "William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior"

https://www.theonion.com/william-safire-orders-two-whoppers-...

A six-pack of Mountains Dew

six mountains dewing

five bajas blasting

four attournies generalising

three jokes fading

two eyes closing

one final line

Don't forget witches three and Airpods Pro.

> Attornies General

How archaic! This seems wrong and broken, and surely in a generation or two it will no longer be considered proper.

I'm glad the collective might of society and culture, much like a river changing course, can mutate language.

Modern example: AirPods Pro.

This discussion being AirPod Prose.

Birds of Prey.

> This seems wrong and broken

Does it? "Attorney" is the noun. "General" is the adjective. You pluralize the noun, not the adjective.

As a military rank, "general" is already a noun and you say "army generals", so why not "attorney generals"?

I think it's the word order, borrowed from French, that's scrutinized here. I don't know if that makes it "broken" but it is a special case with only a handful of peers.

A native English construction would be general attorneys.

I have stated this case before for Doctors Pepper