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When Words End in 'O,' Their Plurals Spell Woe

When Vice President Dan Quayle "corrected" a student's spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" back in 1992, people laughed. But some of us might have trouble spelling its plural form. Is it "potatos" or ...
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Toyota Reveals Plural Form of Prius During Climax of Six-Week Campaign

Toyota Motor Sales finally settled the issue about what do you call more than one Prius. In a campaign started last month during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Toyota declared ...
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11 nouns that only have a plural form

Of all the grammar concepts we have, "plural" seems to be one of the most straightforward. You got one thing? It's singular. Got more than one thing? It's plural. But alas, language is always less ...