plurals, any rules ?
plurals, any rules ?
(OP)
Words ending in o get different endings when in plural form. Examples:
archipelagoes, mosquitoes, heroes, tomatoes, torpedoes, haloes, volcanoes, embargoes, etc.
while,
commandos, dynamos, radios, silos, folios, ghettos, embryos, librettos, impresarios, etc.
Question: are there any grammatical (or other) rules for those endings ?





RE: plurals, any rules ?
Longer answer: the origin of the different ending is that the words that end in -os are for the most part perceived as more "foreign" than those ending in -oes and so are "immune" to some of English's orthographic rules. This is a generalization and is of no use whatsoever for predicting which category a word will fall in.
Hg
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RE: plurals, any rules ?
Just never, ever catch the American disease and start putting in apostrophes when unsure.
- Steve
RE: plurals, any rules ?
It's the type of rule up with which Churchill would not put.
Hg
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RE: plurals, any rules ?
RE: plurals, any rules ?
- Steve
RE: plurals, any rules ?
RE: plurals, any rules ?
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