We might as well form the word the way English plurals are formed,” Zimmer said. In that case, the English plural really should be “Priuses,” even if it sounds a bit silly.

QUIZ: Test the power of YOUR English plurals! Last updated on: April 25, 2012 18:40 IST Answer these questions and find out just how strong your command over English words really is!

Usually English plurals are pretty easy. Just add s: one dog, two dogs. We know some plurals don't use s: children, deer. There are some nouns that we seem to use only in the plural: thanks ...

When English had a plural form back in the Renaissance, this was it. Ye came into English from Germanic, and it’s still used ...

In general, to form plurals in English, you add either -s or -es (and sometimes change a y to an i). But there are a number of words – including some you use every day – that don’t follow ...

English doesn’t always play by the rules.This quiz will test how well you know the plural forms of 25 words — and how well you can type them out. There’s no multiple choice and no hints.

Latin plurals are common in English, and they defy our standard system of adding S to form a plural: One cat, two cats. One house, two houses. One phenomenon, two — record scratch.

Originally that plural sense was carried over into English. But already in 1702, the Oxford English Dictionary records, came the first appearance of singular data, in an astronomy textbook.

English is an extreme outlier — globally and historically — in not having a plural second-person pronoun. Skip to content Skip to site index Today’s Paper ...

When English had a plural form back in the Renaissance, this was it. Ye came into English from Germanic, and it’s still used in Ireland. Super Plurals. Sometimes a plural is simply not plural ...