Do they have any special interpretations in contracts? The reason that I ask is that I consider most bare plurals in common English to be ambiguous and ambiguity should be avoided in contracts.

migo posting here: First, buy an American Heritage dictionary. Second, never rely on webster's, use the latin for these plurals. good luck I can see a definite prescriptivist bias there.

discussion to the end and I have no idea about the meaning of bare plurals. I just came across the site ...
you to this site, although there's no mention of bare plurals. Hope it concerns your question even

irregular plurals retain their plural form from the language from which English adopted the word ...
come from German. Consider yourself lucky. All nouns have irregular plurals in German!

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