Anonymous  +  752772 Thu, 28 May 09 03:57 PM can u give me some examples of this subject thanks Anonymous

	AlpheccaStars  +  752784 Thu, 28 May 09 04:03 PM people children men women geese mice fish oxen shrimp AlpheccaStars Joined on Sun, Oct 12 2008 Senior Member 3,508 The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

	Lucus Ong  +  752963 Thu, 28 May 09 06:13 PM can we put "es" after fish or put "s" after dear to show the word is plural. thank you! Lucus Ong Joined on Wed, Apr 29 2009 Malaysia Regular Member 617 Plurals

	AlpheccaStars  +  753078 Thu, 28 May 09 07:45 PM Yes, fishes is possible and it usually means "species of fish" rather than several individuals. Trout is one of the most popular fishes to catch. The most common plural is "fish" He caught a lot of fish. There are ten fish in the pond. We had fresh fish for lunch. Dear is a term of endearment, usually used by older women to refer to each other when they have been friends for a very long time.  If you are with many dear friends, you can say, "My dears, let's go have lunch at the tea room." But if a young person said this, her friends might laugh at her because it is very old-fashioned!  It is not a manly form of address, either. If you mean the animal, the spelling is deer. It is both singular and plural. A herd of deer grazed by our house at sunrise. AlpheccaStars Plurals, Spelling, Relationships, Writing, Friendships, Friends

	cwtch  +  753081 Thu, 28 May 09 07:50 PM The plural of cactus is cacti. Hippopotomus becomes hippopotomi.   Most of the words have irregular plurals retain their plural form from the language from which English adopted the word.   The 'us' to 'i' plural form comes from Latin. Many such as child to children come from German.  Consider yourself lucky.  All nouns have irregular plurals in German! cwtch Joined on Mon, May 18 2009 Full Member 279 I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Live free or die. Plurals, Nouns, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages

	AlpheccaStars  +  753101 Thu, 28 May 09 08:08 PM And some words have both the original plural form, as well as the -s form, which is probably evolving to replace the original (irregular) form. curriculua, curriculums radii, radiuses nuclei, nucleuses oxen, oxes (more than 2!) amebae, amebas antennas, antennae AlpheccaStars Plurals

	cwtch  +  753120 Thu, 28 May 09 08:24 PM geese (interestingly, goose becomes geese, moose remains moose and papoose becomes papooses.) mice (Again, mouse becomes mice but house becomes houses and yet, die becomes dice.  I’m talking about the cubes with numbers on them that are used in various games.) fish (as mentioned earlier is either fish of fishes.) oxen (Yet, fox is foxes not foxen.) foot becomes feet sphinx becomes sphinges Pronouns are all irregular and in different ways: I-we You-you He/she/it-they Wife-wives Knife-knives Formula-formulae Phenomenon-phenomena Criterion-criteria Djinni-djinn Life-lives Seraph-seraphim Cherub-cherubim Brother-brethren Index-indices (Is the plural of Kleenex: Kleenices? LOL..No, it’s not.) Tooth-teeth       cwtch Plurals, Pronouns, Marriage, Relationships, Writing, Speaking, Chat, Friendships, Numbers

	cwtch  +  753123 Thu, 28 May 09 08:28 PM AlpheccaStars “ antennas, antennae ”     You're right but I hate that.  The irregulars are much more fun.  They're like the raisins in raisin bread.  Without them, you just have bread. cwtch