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Introduction----------------------------------------------------------------------------------2
Regular plurals------------------------------------------------------------------------------3
Almost regular plurals---------------------------------------------------------------------5
Irregular plurals-----------------------------------------------------------------------------7
Irregular – (e)n plurals--------------------------------------------------------------------6
Umlaut plurals-------------------------------------------------------------------------------7
Irregular plurals from Latin and Greek------------------------------------------------7
Words better known in the plural-----------------------------------------------------10
Plurals of numbers-----------------------------------------------------------------------11
Plurals and units of measure----------------------------------------------------------11
Plurals of headless nouns--------------------------------------------------------------11
Nouns with multiple plurals-------------------------------------------------------------12
Plurals of names of people-------------------------------------------------------------15
Irregular plural from other languages------------------------------------------------15
Plurals of compound nouns------------------------------------------------------------15
Plurals of symbols and initialism------------------------------------------------------17
Uncountable nouns-----------------------------------------------------------------------18
Singularia tantum (only singular) -----------------------------------------------------20
Pluralia tantum (only plural) -----------------------------------------------------------24
Reference-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------28

INTRODUCTIONNumber is the form of the noun which shows weather we speak of one thing or of more than one. Accordingly there are
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