What’s the Plural of Tableau?
Tableau (comes from French) plural is tableaux or tableaus.
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Nouns mention people, places, things or ideas. Most nouns are countable, and come in a singular or plural noun form. By and large, most nouns in English add “es” or “s” to denote a plural. These are called “regular nouns”.
Irregular nouns become plural by some other inflection, or they may simply remain as is. These nouns are harder to learn, but we have the answers to all the common questions on proper noun forms; like, “what’s the plural of sheep?”, “is fish plural or singular?”, “is ox plural oxes, or oxen?” To all of your questions on plural nouns, we have the answers. Also, no, meese is not the plural of moose; it’s just moose.
Tableau (comes from French) plural is tableaux or tableaus.
For the most part, the plural of tuna is tuna. Sometimes tunas is an accepted plural.
Both vertebras and vertebrae are accepted plurals of vertebra.
The plural of virus is viruses. Virus forewent its Latin plural noun form, or simply never had one.
Both vortices and vortexes are correct plurals of vortex, meaning “whirlpool, eddying mass.” The original plural noun form is vortices (for Latin purists).
A referendum which describes the “submitting of a question to the voters as a whole”, is referendums as a plural noun.
Vertex, which is a Latin word meaning “highest point”, has two plural noun forms, vertices and vertexes.
Bacteria is a plural noun, and comes from Latin. Bacterium is singular.
The singular of data is datum. Data is plural, and the more commonly used of the two.
The word and noun matrix originally comes from Latin, and has two accepted plurals: matrixes and matrices (matrices being the original pl. form).