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Example sentences for: plurals
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It seems that reporters and other writers and speakers have invented a new rule: Whenever possible, use plurals.
That is, since Spanish or Yiddish [s] > English [z] would be phonologically unlikely here, -s and -es in the English plurals are the native English plural allomorphs rather than Spanish- or Yiddish-origin allomorphs.
Whether any name, through local preference, finally came to end in the masculine -o , the feminine -a , or the plurals -i or -e , the root meaning of the name remained the same.
This is proven by the fact that the English plurals are pronounced with [z] and not, as in the case of the Spanish and Yiddish plurals, with [s].
The issue of pronoun agreement might be laid at the door of the feminists' misguided interference with the forces of language, resulting in a nervous rejection of the masculine pronoun as the neutral one; but, in truth, the sustenance of the singular nature of words like each, everybody, everyone, etc. is probably pedantry, for sense and logic are not sacrificed by changing them to plurals, with the added benefit of avoiding the dreaded he/his/him, regarded by feminists as the bearer of the stigma of male machismo.