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| | Straight Dope Staff Report: What is the plural of "penis"? |
 | | The Latin plural is octopodes, which is acceptable in English, but octopuses (or even octopus) seems more at home in English. | | | For example, the Latin plural of iris is irides, which is acceptable in English, but I prefer irises. | | | Often the English and Latin style plurals are both acceptable. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mplurals.html
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| | Gospel Link |
| | After the Kirtland experience, he knew the tension it would create in his own family; even though Emma, with faith in his prophetic calling, accepted the revelation as being from God and not of his own doing, she could not reconcile herself to the practice. | | | He then learned that when the Lord commanded it, as he had with the Patriarchs anciently, a man could have more than one living wife at a time and not be condemned for adultery. | | | After this, Joseph Smith told Brigham Young that he was determined to press ahead though it would cost him his life, for "it is the work of God, and He has revealed this principle, and it is not my business to control or dictate it" (Brigham Young Discourse, Oct. 8, 1866, Church Archives). |
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http://ldsfaq.byu.edu/emmain.asp?number=145
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| | PLURAL MARRIAGES AFTER THE 1890 MANIFESTO |
| | This, of course, is setting aside eternal plural marriage, because many of them, Joseph Fielding Smith among them, have entered into eternal plural marriages where, after the death of one wife, they have been sealed for time and eternity to another wife. | | | In 1925, Apostle Lyman entered into a mutual covenant of plural marriage with a woman who had been disfellowshipped in 1921 for her earlier plural marriage to a man from whom she had now separated. | | | And in response to a question relating to that, God told him in a revelation, a fairly brief revelation, that that should not occur and that God could not revoke the practice or principle of plural marriage. |
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http://www.ldshistory.net/pc/postman.htm
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| | English plural - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tolkien popularised dwarves; he intended the changed spelling to differentiate the "dwarf" race in his novels from the cuter and simpler beings common in fairy tales, but it has since spread. | | | Multiple dwarf stars, or non-mythological short human beings, however, are dwarfs. | | | Because English includes words from so many ancestral languages, as well as many loanwords from Latin, Classical Greek and modern languages, there are many other forms of plurals. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural
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| | Plural and Possessive |
| | For this reason, the plural possessive form babies' is correct. | | | The mention of triplets suggests that there is more than one baby crying in the house. | | | For this reason, you must know the correct singular and possessive nouns before you can make them possessive. |
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http://www.meredith.edu/grammar/plural.htm
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| | Donklephant » Blog Archive » The Word Nerd |
| | “What is the plural of rhinoceros?” Sir Charles Eliot wrote in “The East Africa Protectorate” in 1905. | | | I think I transliterated that incorrectly out of ancient Greek into modern English. | | | This has confused English-speakers who encounter words nativized from Greek. |
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http://donklephant.com/2005/07/15/the-word-nerd
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| | The Old Joel on Software Forum - Table Names: Singular or Plural? |
| | This is a religious issue, and I don't think it makes one tiny little bit of difference to anything. | | | The correct way is surely to use both. | | | You don't say to yourself I want to select a "customers" object from the "customers" table! |
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http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware?cmd=show&ixPost=5904
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| | 1.1c - Plural and Possessive Nouns |
| | If your response shows as "Incorrect" in the status bar, you can click on the other answers to find the correct one (which will give you "Correct in the status bar). | | | Common Possessive singular bird bird's plural birds birds' | | | are nouns which have been changed into their plural form by adding an -s or -es. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/speech/1_1c.htm
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| | Plural of virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | To complicate matters further, viri is already used in Latin as the plural of vir, meaning "man" (thus making viri mean "men") | | | The use of plural forms from many different languages is one convenient way to vary the spelling of words without losing comprehensibility, and even today one attribute associated with hackers is a fondness for choosing unusual plural forms. | | | The viri form is also incorrect in Latin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_(plural)
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| | What is the plural of 'virus'? |
| | Besides, viri is the Latin word for 'men' (plural of vir, man, the root the English virile). | | | If you have some knowledge of linguistics and Latin, you might be interested in the morphological analysis of the word from the Perseus Project. | | | True, the word comes directly from Latin, but not all Latin words ending in -us have -i as their plural. |
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http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/v/virus.html
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| | An Algorithmic Approach to English Pluralization |
| | if category(-general,-generals), return inflection(-l,-ls) if the word is of the form: " general", return " of word> general" if the word is of the form: " ", return " of word> " | | | Another task which is complicated by the irregular inflections of many English plurals is that of indexing or cross-referencing text. | | | The correct inflection of words derived from Latin can be particularly complex, since the same suffix may form different Latinate plurals depending on the declension (or sometimes the part of speech) of the original. |
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http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Plurals.html
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| | Plural Noun Forms |
| | For instance, we would refer to the "ins and outs" of a mystery, the "yeses and nos" of a vote (NYPL Writer's Guide to Style and Usage), and we assume that Theodore Bernstein knew what he was talking about in his book Dos, Don'ts & Maybes of English Usage. | | | And, finally, there are nouns that maintain their Latin or Greek form in the plural. | | | We would also write "The shortstop made two spectacular outs in that inning." But when we refer to a word-as-a-word, we first italicize it — I pointed out the use of the word out in that sentence. |
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http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm
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| | PLURAL-izing |
| | The rules for forming the plural from Greek or Latin words are listed below. | | | Dorland’s gives both English and Latin/Greek plurals for some words, e.g., the plural of appendix can be appendixes (English) or appendices (Latin). | | | NOTE: In the examples below, where Dorland’s 27th edition gives both the English and Latin/Greek plural, I have indicated the English plural in parentheses. |
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http://www.mtmonthly.com/studentcorner/plural.htm
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| | Singular & plural words |
| | This is an anonymous account, please login if you wish to post replies. | | | where do I find information and practice work on plural words | | | I want the list of singular and plural words (some 200 words) |
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http://www.englishforums.com/English/SingularPluralWords/bmgg/Post.htm#36177
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| | Singular & Plural Nouns --- Love to Learn Place.com |
| | The following are among those that add s only | | | This is why such nouns form the plural by adding | | | Exercise: Write the plural of the following words |
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http://www.lovetolearnplace.com/Grammar/singular&pluralnouns.html
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| | Plural - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Also, an interesting difference from Romance/Germanic languages is found in some Slavic and Baltic languages. | | | (See English plural.) In many other languages, for example German and the various Romance languages, articles and adjectives also inflect for plurality. | | | For example, in the English sentence "the brown cats run," only the noun and verb are inflected; but in the French sentence "les chats bruns courent," every word (article, noun, adjective, and verb) is inflected. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural
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| | GNU gettext utilities: Plural forms |
| | This is somewhat surprising for those who only have experiences with Romanic and Germanic languages since here the number is the same (there are two). | | | Once again people fell into the trap of believing the rules their language is using are universal. | | | Though English and German are part of the same language family (Germanic), the almost regular forming of plural noun forms (appending an `s') is hardly found in German. |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext_150.html
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| | Plural |
| | This is a general plural suffix that can be used on any word. | | | This suffix is used on stems ending in vowels, and is usually reserved for nouns relating to family relations, respected occupations, and gods. | | | This suffix appears on many words but is generally used only on those words ending in -n where it replaces that final n. |
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http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/plural.html
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| | FunBrain.com - The Plural Girls |
| | Type in the correct plural form of the given word. | | | Help them get their friends out by choosing the correct plural form of the given word. | | | Click on the correct plural form of the given word. |
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http://www.funbrain.com/plurals
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| | plural. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| | This zero plural has a long history and was not formerly as socially stigmatized as it is today. | | | Some vernacular varieties of English do not use plural endings in measurement phrases such as three mile and ten pound. | | | This ending has long since fallen away, leaving behind the unmarked root forms. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/61/44/P0384400.html
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| | Spanish Grammar: plural forms of nouns |
| | Suggested writing exercise: Write three sentences about any subject. | | | If a noun ends in -z, make it plural by changing the z to c, and adding -es. | | | If a noun ends in -ión, make it plural by adding -es and dropping the written accent. |
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http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/plnoun.htm
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| | CD Baby: PLURAL: Have A Rad Summer - from evor |
| | Plural is about the songs that get stuck in your head and wishing the world knew about it. | | | Born out of a long, hard working 8 years in the "almost was" ska/punk band, Buck-O-Nine, Scott Kennerly and drummer Jeff Hawthorne teamed up with singer/songwriter John Meeks to form the beginings of Plural. | | | Joined on violin by Mary Forrest, they recorded their debut record, "Have A Rad Summer". |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/plural/from/evor
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| | Spanish Grammar: plural forms of nouns |
| | If a noun ends in -z, add -es and change the z to c. | | | If a noun ends in -ión, add -es and drop the written accent. | | | If a noun ends in ión, drop the written accent before adding -es. |
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http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/plnoun.htm
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| | Plural |
| | Plural Noos is an extension of the knowledge representation language Noos for intelligent agent communication. | | | An agent in Plural is a particular knowledge system developed in Noos that has a network address. | | | Foreign evaluation requires the remote agent to own a particular method that can then be used by the originating agent. |
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http://www.iiia.csic.es/Projects/FedLearn/plural.html
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| | National ACLU Policy on Plural Marriage |
| | As with the advocacy of political doctrines, a line must be drawn between expression of belief and the actual practice of an act which has been proscribed by the community through its legislative representatives (the test of a “clear and present danger”). | | | The ACLU believes that criminal and civil laws prohibiting or penalizing the practice of plural marriage violate constitutional protections of freedom of expression and association, freedom of religion, and privacy for personal relationships among consenting adults. | | | Advocacy of plural marriage and the expression of a religious belief in plural marriage are protected by the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment even though polygamy has been declared to be criminal by states. |
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http://www.acluutah.org/pluralmarriage.htm
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| | Plural |
| | There are a few irregular plurals such as men, children, women, oxen, and a number of words taken directly from foreign languages such as alumni (plural of alumnus) or media (plural of medium). | | | For the formation of the plural of letters, symbols, and words as words, see Apostrophes with Plurals of Underlined Items. | | | We also speak of the plural form of pronouns--that is, pronouns that take the place of plural nouns like we, you, and they. |
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http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000363.htm
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| | www.myspace.com/plural |
| | Plural began its life as a mere embryo, growing in the womb of the popular ska/punk band Buck O Nine. | | | Self-recorded, self-produced, and not the least bit self-indulgent, Plural is committed to the art of song, and music that is atmospheric, beautiful and timeless. | | | you guys totally rock, maybe sometime in the future plural and the conversationalists can play a show together. |
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http://www.myspace.com/plural
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| | PLURAL OF NOUNS |
| | Nouns ending in “y” form their plural in one of the two ways | | | Nouns ending in “s, sh, ch, x, or z” form their plural by adding “es” | | | For compound nouns formed with prepositions or adverbs make only the first word plural : |
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http://www.james.rtsq.qc.ca/Virtgram/plurnoth.htm
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| | Joanna Crump's Webpage on English Grammar |
| | Note that some of these have adapted a regular English plural form as well. | | | Outside of this pattern, however, are several nouns which are irregular in their spelling. | | | The majority of English count nouns are regular and predictable in the spelling of the plural form. |
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http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/crump.htm
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| | Plurals |
| | Making a noun plural in Greek requires knowing both its gender and the letters with which it ends. | | | To make an English noun plural, we usually add -s or -es to the end. | | | So, please don't complain about the rules for forming plurals in Greek. |
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http://langintro.com/greek/grammar/plural.htm
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| | Plural nouns in English |
| | Binary nouns refer to objects that can be thought of as having two parts. | | | Example: Joe always wears sunglasses because he thinks that they make him look cool. | | | Many aggregate nouns have plural forms, but many also are not plural in form, though they use plural verb forms. |
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http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/nouns/plural.htm
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| | Plural Publishing |
| | Plural Publishing produces leading academic, scientific and clinical books, journals, videos, and electronic and virtual media primarily in the fields of speech-language pathology, audiology, and otolaryngology. | | | Stay up to date with the latest offers, new releases, author news, meeting reports, and more within the Plural Community by joining our mailing list. | | | © 2006 Plural Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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http://www.pluralpublishing.com
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| | Spelling Plural Nouns |
| | A few nouns have plural forms that are left from Old English. | | | Certain English nouns change a vowel sound when they become plural. | | | Ten Tips for Better Spelling - This may be the best-known spelling rule: i before e, except after c or when sounded like... |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0886509.html
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| | dictionary (About Project Runeberg) |
| | GRAMMAR: (0) Only include each word's basic form, (1) also include all legal forms of spelling (like plural, genitive), (2) also to note for each form of spelling the grammatic position to which it belongs (this is a genitive, that is a plural). | | | COVERAGE: (0) Limit the area of interest, for example only to include scientific (or computing) terms. | | | The UNIX spell-checker 'spell' uses a very simple format for its dictionary and draws its own conclusions about endings and plurals. |
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http://runeberg.org/admin/dictionary.html
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| | Sophonix - Development and Content for Desktop and Mobile |
| | Plural is freeware and has been written in pure Java. | | | The Lua language is quite straight-forward and Plua has it's own functions to access normal Palm features such as the serial port, databases, low-level graphics, UI etc. Plua is a great way to quickly develop modestly sized applications and is freeware. | | | You must have a current Java Runtime Engine(1.4.x), free from Sun Microsystems to run Plural. |
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http://www.sophonix.com/downloads/plural.asp
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| | Wordsmyth |
| | of, or being one of, a plurality of persons or things. | | | in grammar, the plural number, or a word or form in this number. |
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http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=plural&matchtype=exact
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| | .: Plural :. |
| | Since then, the company has completed and delivered large and complex projects in private and public buildings, airports, sport, convention and exhibition venues, train and metro stations. | | | PLURAL has been active in the mobile telecommunications network infrastructure business in Greece and Balkan countries since 1992. | | | Additionally, network installation and optimization had to occur within very tight time requirements due to construction delays. |
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http://www.plural.gr
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| | plural |
| | pertaining to or involving a plurality of persons or things. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/plural
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| | PLURAL:Home |
| | PLURAL version 2.1.2 is available for Linux platform. | | | May 2004: The 3rd pre-release of the upcoming 2-2 series, |
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http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/plural
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