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Example sentences for: plurals

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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.
In general, back-formation of new singulars from plurals is a sign that the plural is textually more frequent than the singular (indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary lists only frijoles and no singular form whatsoever for English).
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.
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.
It might impress him to hear the child regularize our odd plurals, with mans and gooses and lifes , a sub-rule which he has to swallow willy-nilly.