What is the vowel sound preceding the final /z/ in words ending in es? Is it /ɪ/, as in the word 'is', or is it /i/, as in the word 'ease'? As in the word "is". Beach, Beaches = Beach is Case, Cases = Case is But when

Sorry, but I agree with your friend and the others posted here. Sure, "it" can represent a list of things, but when you use the "one of" you are now talking about those things individually , so you need a plural word to talk

The Prof was from Boston, and kept talking about "datter". It was the first time I'd heard that pronunciation, and it was weeks into the course before I figured out that a datter array was not named after some guy named Datter. I