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Why is the plural form of house not hice? The reason why the plural of house is houses is that that ending is the regular pattern 1 That simple In earlier stages of English, house had different plurals; but it was regularised to fit in with the most basic pattern of adding z If we go back to Old English, the word was hūs (pronounced huːs , like ‘hooce’ in Modern English
grammatical number - English Language Usage Stack Exchange But the plural of house is houses, and 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,
grammatical number - Goose–geese vs. moose–moose - English . . . Basically, what it means is that these words, which include "foot" and "tooth," pluralize by changing the "oo" to "ee" (like foot feet and tooth teeth) So that's why the plural of "goose" is "geese " Similar rules come into play for the words "louse" and "mouse " While people may have used a word similar to "hide" as the plural form of "house
grammatical number - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker offers an explanation involving Walkman Walkmans and fly out flied out (baseball terminology), which basically says that a Walkman is not a type of man, thus it does not follow the irregular plural rules for man
Is the plural of the electronic mouse mouses or mice? The Second Edition of the OED gives one plural quote, which has "mice"; in the Third Edition (November 2010), the old quote is gone and there is a new plural quote, which has "mouses"
Logical Etymological reason for unique conjugation of third person . . . And {-Z₁}, the English third person singular present tense suffix -- one of the 8 inflections left in English, and one of three that all use z , s , and əz -- is the only mark of present tense around (everything else can be taken for an infinitive, and often is in nascent Englishes)
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Why is the plural form of Moose not Meese? [duplicate] As suggested in the following extract, the reason appears to be the fact that, by the time that the term moose entered the English language (17th century), the big vowels shift was already almost completed, so, unlike goose - geese, the same mutation didn't take place for moose
What is the plural form of status? - English Language Usage Stack . . . 18 Many moons ago, our own tchrist wrote * If for some bizarre reason you simply cannot bring yourself to use the normal English plural form “statuses”, then you must learn that the true plural of status is statUs, with a macro [n] over the u [i e , statūs] and pronounced “statoose”
pronunciation - How do you pronounce Pall Mall? - English Language . . . Normal English pronunciation is Pal (as in friend) - like shall But it's named after a game in French Paille-maille, so 'upper-class' English pronunciation is sometimes Pel Mel The term "short a" can refer to at least three different sounds, so that's a pretty useless explanation