What’s the Plural of Self?
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.
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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.
The word and noun matrix originally comes from Latin, and has two accepted plurals: matrixes and matrices (matrices being the original pl. form).
Criteria, which are a “standard or principle by which something is judged”, is a plural noun. Criterion is the singular of criteria.
Elk (not to be confused with moose and deer, though they all belong to the same Cervid family) is elk or elks, as a plural noun.
The plural of index (a Latin noun) is indexes or indices, though indices is the original, Latin plural form.
Singular nouns that end in -o normally take on s or es as a plural, like potato/potatoes (and tomato/tomatoes).
Chief plural is chiefs. Unlike similar nouns that also end in sibilants and use -ves as a pl. n., chief simply adds an -s to denote its plural noun form.
Addendum has two plural noun forms: both addenda and addendums are correct, though the former is the original Latinate pl. n. form.