What’s the Plural of Roof? Roofs or Rooves?
The plural of roof is roofs. Some use rooves, which is unbecoming.
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The plural of roof is roofs. Some use rooves, which is unbecoming.
The simple, sweet answer (much like the subject matter itself) is that the plural of loaf is loaves.
Foot plural is feet. Look tooth plural is teeth, foot is an irregular English plural noun that does not end in s/es.
The Latin noun, alumni (meaning a graduate of a former school or university) is the plural of alumnus. Alumnus is singular.
Software is a mass noun that only has a singular noun form. Whether we use it as a singular or plural, it stays “software”.
The plural and singular of series is series. Series already refers to a number of things, and so it stays the same either way.
As a general guide, beer (no -s) is most often the plural of beer. When referring to varieties, or types of beers, the standard pl.
Aircraft is the same in both its singular and plural noun form. Both are aircraft.
The short answer is that both hippopotamuses and hippopotami are correct plurals for this barrel-bodied and rotund mammal: the hippopotamus.