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Guest, 5 yr 325 days ago
What is the plural form of masseuse or masseur?
maj, 5 yr 324 days ago
You mean strategies?
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Guest, 5 yr 199 days ago
My school teacher said an object is always regarded as plural if it is made up of more than one part but USUALLY useless if broken into two or more identical components .. like scissors. She emphasized usually ... like a handicaped person may actually use only one part of the pants .. it is still pants not pant ... interestingly spectacles is not the plural of a monocle ... although if you had powered glass for only one eye, and your specs broke and you decide to stick only the required glasspiece to your eye, either you are wearing a broken spectacles, or a monocle but not a spectacle.

Gloves was another debate: Always a pair of gloves for the two you need, each one is still a plural because each has five fingers, thats why it is plural not because you need two ... but it is still a glove-compartment not a gloves-compartmentSmile [:)], shoes, socks, briefs fall into the same category!
miriam, 5 yr 199 days ago
politics, scales, billiards, clothes.

cooly  +  29784 Thu, 13 May 04 12:24 PM
Hi everyone.It is an intresting subject.
In Arabic 'there is some differences.Beacuse there is dual' for exampl:

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Bye
cooly
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Pemmican  +  29799 Thu, 13 May 04 04:28 PM
Ehm.... could you maybe translate this for people like me who are not very familiar with Arabic?
Thank youSmile [:)]
Pemmican
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Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie? wer wart ie sus...
cooly  +  29821 Fri, 14 May 04 12:23 AM
Ok. ????? ? ??????? ? ??????
It means -- One car . Two cars . Three cars.
The first word on the right is the Singular .The second is called the dual which is not in The English language. The third is Plural.
The last sentence is ( Is there anyone who knows Arabic)


A ??
B ??
C ??
cooly
Guest, 4 yr 360 days ago
Plural form of glasses
Elisabeth M  +  59689 Mon, 06 Dec 04 04:42 PM
In some languages like classical and modern Hebrew this form is called dualis because it refers to things that are only found as a pair, but English as far as I know counts them as plurals. British English at least doesn't talk about "a scissors" but a pair of scissors".
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