Irregular plurals
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Charlie Reams
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Irregular plurals
New wiki page. Interesting reading (IMO) and good for the word knowledge too.
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Charlie Reams wrote:New wiki page. Interesting reading (IMO) and good for the word knowledge too.
You ARE using the word 'interesting' in the loosest possible way?
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Alec Rivers
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Certainly an interesting and useful page, but aren't the following typos, or am I missing something?
Countdown Wiki wrote:the ODE admits only VERTABRAE and not VERTABRAS as the plural of VERTEBRA
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IM is purely added?
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If only you could correct it...Alec Rivers wrote:Certainly an interesting and useful page, but aren't the following typos, or am I missing something?Countdown Wiki wrote:the ODE admits only VERTABRAE and not VERTABRAS as the plural of VERTEBRA
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If only I was signed up...Ian Volante wrote:If only you could correct it...Alec Rivers wrote:Certainly an interesting and useful page, but aren't the following typos, or am I missing something?Countdown Wiki wrote:the ODE admits only VERTABRAE and not VERTABRAS as the plural of VERTEBRA
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And do added -EN plurals count as irregular (OXEN but not OXES)? Or does its ancestry classify it as regular?Gavin Chipper wrote:IM is purely added?
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Charlie Reams
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Yep. Like CHERUB -> CHERUBIM.Gavin Chipper wrote:IM is purely added?
It's not (yet) a comprehensive list of irregular plurals (eg no CHILD -> CHILDREN), but rather plurals from "regularities within the irregularities" as it were. I'm working on extending it but it might be difficult to catch all of them.Brian Moore wrote:And do added -EN plurals count as irregular (OXEN but not OXES)? Or does its ancestry classify it as regular?
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Nice list. Presumably RADIUSES is good then! I wouldn't have realised that.
And I suspect that LITHIA is lithium oxide, not the plural of LITHIUM, although I don't have a dictionary with me to check.
And I suspect that LITHIA is lithium oxide, not the plural of LITHIUM, although I don't have a dictionary with me to check.
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Yep.Matt Bayfield wrote:Nice list. Presumably RADIUSES is good then! I wouldn't have realised that.
Indeed. There are probably a few of these which I'll try to filter out over the weekend.Matt Bayfield wrote:And I suspect that LITHIA is lithium oxide, not the plural of LITHIUM, although I don't have a dictionary with me to check.