What Is A Plural

roadman | 14:09 Thu 02nd Sep 2021 | Arts & Literature

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gness

I had friends named Wildgoose. If they were coming to visit I had to say the Wildgeese are coming....Wildgooses just sounded so wrong.

sanmac

TTT, the singular of dice is die. I think you meant something like sheep is both singular and plural.

Hopkirk

Paparazzo is the singular of paparazzi.

Hopkirk

Does anyone have one trouser, or one scissor?

AuntPG

roadman is English not your first language?

sanmac

And if the plural of mouse is mice, why isn't the plural of house hice?

zebo

Over time some plurals have changed, just to add to the complexity of English, eg the plural of roof used to be rooves but now roofs is accepted, ditto hoof.

jno

peas and cherries used to be singular, now they're plural.

lady-janine

One pea, one cherry.

Peter Pedant

and NOT a collective noun
army is NOT the plural of enlisted men.

herd is not the plural of cattle

sanmac

I herd that cattle is plural.

ToraToraTora

sanmac: "And if the plural of mouse is mice, why isn't the plural of house hice? " - Hice is the singular in posh areas!

bhg481

sanmac - TTT was pointing out that many people say "a dice", not "a die", hence treating dice as a singular word when it is a plural. "Data" is another example where people think it is a singular word when, in fact, "datum" is the singular.

sanmac

Oops, I take that back...Cattle is a collective noun as you implied.

Jackdaw33

You heard correctly, like sheep. It has no singular, you can't have a cattle.

jno

lady-j, it used to be singular as in pease pudding (which is singular, like apple tart). Eventually people used to hear pease as a plural because of the S on the end, so they started to use pea as the singular.

Cerise is still singular in French as cherise used to be in English.