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    This document discusses several categories of irregular and no-change-in-spelling plurals in English: - Some nouns have unpredictable plurals (e.g. goose/geese, mouse/mice) that must be memorized. - Latin-derived nouns often have Latinate plurals (e.g. alumnus/alumni, cactus/cacti). - Nouns ending in -f change to -ves (e.g. hoof/hooves, loaf/loaves). - Nouns ending in -is change to -es (e.g. crisis/crises, basis/bases). -

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    This document discusses several categories of irregular and no-change-in-spelling plurals in English: - Some nouns have unpredictable plurals (e.g. goose/geese, mouse/mice) that must be memorized. - Latin-derived nouns often have Latinate plurals (e.g. alumnus/alumni, cactus/cacti). - Nouns ending in -f change to -ves (e.g. hoof/hooves, loaf/loaves). - Nouns ending in -is change to -es (e.g. crisis/crises, basis/bases). -

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    This document discusses several categories of irregular and no-change-in-spelling plurals in English: - Some nouns have unpredictable plurals (e.g. goose/geese, mouse/mice) that must be memorized. - Latin-derived nouns often have Latinate plurals (e.g. alumnus/alumni, cactus/cacti). - Nouns ending in -f change to -ves (e.g. hoof/hooves, loaf/loaves). - Nouns ending in -is change to -es (e.g. crisis/crises, basis/bases). -

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    This document discusses several categories of irregular and no-change-in-spelling plurals in English: - Some nouns have unpredictable plurals (e.g. goose/geese, mouse/mice) that must be memorized. - Latin-derived nouns often have Latinate plurals (e.g. alumnus/alumni, cactus/cacti). - Nouns ending in -f change to -ves (e.g. hoof/hooves, loaf/loaves). - Nouns ending in -is change to -es (e.g. crisis/crises, basis/bases). -

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    Special Plural Form of Nouns

    (Irregular & No-Change-in Spelling Plurals)


    Why English Is Hard To Learn
    by James Donovan
    https://www.youtube.cohttps://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-english-is-hard-to-learn/m/watch?v=kPCoC4V1EeY

    We'll begin with box; the plural is boxes;


    But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes,
    One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese,
    Yet the plural of moose is never called meese.

    You can find a lone mouse or a house full of mice;


    But the plural of house is houses not hice.
    The plural of man is always men.
    But the plural of pan is never pen.

    If I speak of a foot, and you show me two feet,


    And I give you a book, would a pair be a beek?
    If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
    Why shouldn't two booths be called beeth?

    If the singular's this and the plural is these,


    Should the plural of kiss be ever called keese?

    We speak of a brother and also of brethren,


    But though we say mother, we never say methren.
    When the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him;
    Just imagine the feminine....she, shis, and shim!
    …but with patiently learning about special
    plural form of nouns, self-expression will be
    much easier. Here are the words that we
    rarely use but will encounter sooner or later:
    Latinate Plurals
    SINGULAR PLURAL

    alumna (female) alumnae


    alumnus (male/mixed alumni
    gender)
    antenna antennae
    bacterium bacteria
    cactus cacti
    curriculum curricula
    datum data
    agendum agenda/agendas (modern sense)
    Changing Vowels & -f to -ves
    SINGULAR PLURAL
    mouse mice
    louse lice
    hoof hooves
    loaf loaves
    thief thieves
    -is to -es
    SINGULAR PLURAL
    analysis analyses
    basis bases
    crisis crises
    diagnosis diagnoses
    hypothesis hypotheses
    parenthesis parentheses
    thesis theses
    -ix to -ices
    SINGULAR PLURAL
    appendix appendices
    index indices
    matrix matrices
    Unchanged Plurals
    SINGULAR PLURAL
    deer deer
    fish fish (same specie)/fishes (different species)
    means means
    series series
    sheep sheep
    Compound Noun Plurals
    SINGULAR PLURAL
    mother-in-law mothers-in-law
    commander-in-chief commanders-in-chief
    general staff general staff
    notary public notaries public
    step son step sons
    take-off take-offs

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