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Started Grammarflex(ing) in 2022—been a word nerd and writing enthusiast ever since. (BA, MA in phil).

What’s the Past Tense of Bring? Brung or Brought?

Bring is the present tense. Brought is both the past tense and past participle.

To fly is the present tense. Flew is the simple past, and flown is the past participle.

The past tense of the transitive verb ‘to lead’, is ‘led’ (rhymed with fed).

Volcanoes and volcanos are both accepted plurals for volcano.

Pliers are a plural-only noun because they are made up of parts. ‘A pair of pliers’ refers to them as a singular noun.

Zeroes or zeros are both accepted plurals of the noun (and non-figure) zero.

Both dogmas and dogmata are accepted plurals of dogma (sing. n.). Dogmata is the original Greek pl. n. form; dogmas is the Americanized plural.

The plural of self is selves. Like most nouns that come from German and are sibilants, self takes on -ves as a pl. n. form.

The plural of the Latin noun, colloquium, (pronounced koll-o-kwee-um) is colloquia or colloquiums.

Formulas and formulae are both accepted plurals of formula.