By Pronunciation, Plurals

How does it sound when an English learner prounounces the word "as" with the vowel sound used in the word "any"? I see different pronunciation symbols between two when I look them up the dictionary. When it comes to the words like "men" and "man", the sounds should be different because the...

Hi Ralf, You are both correct. They are still considered ungrammatical by many, and you would be wise to avoid them in careful writing; but the fact remains that the use of 'here/there is' (usually as 'here's/there's') with plural nouns is extremely common-- and acceptable-- informally. I use...

nucleus - nuclei radius - radii

I kind of like the term 'rule breakers' for exceptions to the rule. SMILE By the way, those rule breaking words were borrowed into English from Latin and Greek.

What I meant is, many nouns are pluralized by adding "s" or "es". Very few words, in comparison, are pluralized (love that word) with "i".

What rule is being broken here, King?

Here are some rule breakers: cactus - cacti (kaktai) focus - foci (fokai) (That last one is a math term) I can't think of any others at the moment, but usually if it ends in "us", you get rid of that and make it "i" (pronounced like I as in me.)

For nouns that end in f: leaf - leaves loaf - loaves elf - elves dwarf - dwarves (I could've sworn this was spelled "dwarfs" when Disney first came out with "Snow White and the seven...") reef - reefs oaf - oafs

One cafe, two cafes One safe, two safes One giraffe, two giraffes One gaffe, two gaffes One knife, two knives One wife, two wives One fife, two fifes One life, two lives Are there any more you can think of?

WHAT ARE THE PLURAL FORMS OF THE NOUNS WHICH END WITH FE?