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This tag applies to questions that deal with grammatical number: “singular” versus “plural”, and (rarely) also “dual”.
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How does one pluralize a name that ends with a silent x?
My friend Paul Robichaux (noted O'Reilly author, Exchange MVP, and all-around good guy) was tagged in a Facebook post today in which the poster lamented that they “were missing a few tall Robichauxs.” …
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When do nouns convert between mass and count?
I confess to having the pedantic hangup of refusing to use email as a count noun, but it's a lost cause.
Over the past week I've been working on a modeling and simulation proposal, and I've noticed t …
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What is the plural form of "status"?
Many moons ago, our own tchrist wrote*
… If for some bizarre reason you simply cannot bring yourself to
use the normal English plural form “statuses”, then you must learn
that the true …
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"How are" or "How is" the wife and kid?
When in doubt, a useful test involves substituting pronouns. Consider
How is they?
versus
How are they?
Say the wife and kid live in different places—maybe the latter is away at school—and …
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