A Word with a Tricky Plural

rogersgeorge on January 24th, 2024

English borrows a lot of words from other languages, and sometimes we also borrow the foreign plural form, and sometimes not. So sometimes we don’t know! Here’s an example.

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Of course I’m not going to tell you the answer (this time); go look it up.

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A Word with a Tricky Plural

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