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3 unusual facts about Plural


Folha da Manhã

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Plural

Examples in English are we (us, etc.) and they (them etc.; see English personal pronouns), and again these and those (when used as demonstrative pronouns).

Some languages (like Mele-Fila) distinguish between a plural and a greater plural.


1890 Manifesto

that a law in Idaho Territory which disenfranchised individuals who practiced or believed in plural marriage was constitutional.

Aboiteau

A wooden sluice or aboiteau (plural aboiteaux) is then built into the dyke, with a hinged door (clapper valve) that swings open at low tide to allow fresh water to drain from the farmland but swings shut at high tide to prevent salt water from inundating the fields.

Aleje Jerozolimskie

The name of the village was Nowa Jerozolima (New Jerusalem), and the road to Warsaw was named Aleja Jerozolimska (singular, as opposed to the modern name, which is plural).

Antiquities

Antiquities, nearly always used in the plural in this sense, is a term for objects from Antiquity

Bips

Basis point, which is colloquially referred to in plural as bips.

Both

Dual number, a form of the plural referring to exactly two things

Chigoe flea

In Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, they are known as ivunja or imvunja (singular) or amavunja (plural).

Chloroflexi

The taxon name was created in the 2001 edition of Volume 1 of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and is the Latin plural of the name Chloroflexus, the name of the type genus of the phylum, a common practice.

Citri

the plural of the word Citro, designing a freshwater marine spring in Italy, such as those near Taranto

Comparison of Scottish Gaelic and Irish

:Connacht Irish — Cén chaoi a bhfuil sibh? (plural), Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú? (singular), in colloquial speech Ce chuil sib/tú

Cuneus

:Cuneus (Latin for "wedge"; plural, cunei) is also the architectural term applied to the wedge-shaped divisions of the Roman theatre separated by the scalae or stairways; see Vitruvius v. 4.

Current state of polygamy in the Latter Day Saint movement

The LDS Church has not tolerated plural marriages since the 1890 Manifesto was declared.

Epiphenomenalism

This subjective experience is often called a quale (plural qualia), and it describes the private "raw feel" or the subjective "what-it-is-like" that is the inner accompaniment of many mental states.

Gaus

A Gau is an administrative division formerly used in Germany, the plural of which is Gaue (though often rendered in English as Gaus).

Gogo people

The Gogo (or mgogo singular and Wagogo plural ) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania.

Goose

In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandres (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, and gosling respectively), New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās.

Hochstift

In the Holy Roman Empire the German term Hochstift (plural: Hochstifte or, in some regions, Hochstifter) was often used to denote the territory of secular authority held by bishops ruling a prince-bishopric as their temporalities.

Horreum

A horreum (plural: horrea) was a type of public warehouse used during the ancient Roman period.

Hunterian Psalter

These prayers were written for a female reader, but the singular feminine Latin endings were first overwritten with singular masculine endings, and then still later, plural masculine ones.

Hypha

A hypha (plural hyphae) is a long, branching filamentous structure of a fungus, and also of unrelated Actinobacteria.

Juveniles

Additionally, the plural form juveniles may refer the Heinlein juveniles, a series of sci-fi books written by that author for young people.

LambdaMOO

(LambdaMOO supports custom designations of gender, and comes with the following presets: neuter, male, female, either, Spivak, splat, plural, egotistical, royal, and 2nd-person).

Las armas secretas

The Droolings of the Devil ("Blow-Up" in the US translation): the story that inspired the film Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni for its digressive execution of metalinguistic narrative and lucid contemplation; (its beginning guarantees it, never will you know how it has to be told, if in the first person or in the second, using the third person plural or continually inventing forms that serve no purpose)

Les Incompétents

According to the band, in an interview with John Kennedy on XFM, their name is pronounced as it is written, with the French plural for 'the' pronounced like the English name 'Les', as if it is a British person's attempt at speaking French.

LMDS

Life Model Decoy, in plural LMDs, fictional androids appearing in comic books

Murgas

The plural of Murga, a form of musical theater performed in Uruguay and in Argentina during the Carnival season

Musca Borealis

Before that, it was called Apes (plural of Apis, Latin for bee) by Petrus Plancius when he created it in 1612.

Name of Sweden

The name of Sweden was originally a plural form of Swede and is a so-called "back-formation", from Old English Sweoðeod, which meant "people of the Swedes" (Old Norse Svíþjóð, Latin Suetidi).

Ngondo

The ceremony is held at a beach on Wouri Bay, during which a devotee enters the water to visit the underwater kingdom of the miengu (plural for jengu).

Oranje

De Oranjes (plural of oranje, lit. "the oranges") is a shorthand term used to refer to the Dutch royal family.

Peritus

At the most recent council, the Second Vatican Council, some periti (the plural form) accompanied individual bishops or groups of bishops from various countries.

Potteries dialect

Two noticeable features of the dialect are the vowel sound ow (as in low) which is used where standard English would use ol as in cowd = cold, 'towd" = told, etc. and the use of thee and they in place of you (both singular and plural), also heard in parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Sandvikens IF

Stålmännen has a double meaning, as it also is the plural form of Stålmannen, the Swedish name for Superman.

Spanish maravedí

The first one is the most straightforward, the second is a variant plural formation found commonly in words ending with a stressed -í, whereas the third is the most unusual and the least recommended (Real Academia Española's Diccionario panhispánico de dudas labels it "vulgar in appearance").

Taotao

taotao, the Chamorro word for person or people (singular and/or plural)

Termitomyces schimperi

In the plural the mushroom is referred to as Omajowa (with the alternative spelling of omajova or omayova) by both the Herero and Ovambo people of Namibia.

Terra incognita

The equivalent on French maps would be terres inconnues (plural form), and some English maps may show Parts Unknown.

Tolu balsam

Its name comes from Tolú (singular); Tolúes (plural), the name of the native precolumbian people that used to be the inhabitants at the same place where now is located Tolú, a small town and municipality in Sucre Department, northern Colombia (South America) by the Caribbean sea.

Triangulum Minus

It was formed from the southern parts of his Triangula (plural form of Triangulum), but is no longer in use.

Ulava charu

In Telugu language, spoken locally, Ulava (singular)/Ulavalu (plural) means Horse gram, a legume with the botanical name Macrotyloma uniflorum and Charu or Chaaru means soup.

Veronese Riddle

Michele A. Cortelazzo and Ivano Paccagnella say that the plural -es of boves may well be considered Ladin (a Romance language spoken in parts of Veneto, Trentino and South Tyrol) and therefore not Latin, but romance.

Winston Graham

(The plural "Armadas" refers to a lesser-known second attempt by Philip II of Spain to conquer England in 1598, which Graham argued was better planned and organised than the famous one of 1588, but was foiled by a fierce storm scattering the Spanish ships and sinking many of them.)

Xylophone

The Mbila (plural "Timbila") is associated with the Chopi people of the Inhambane Province, in southern Mozambique.

Zapis

The zapisi (plural) are chosen from large trees, primarily oaks, but also elms, ashes, beeches, pear trees, and hazels.

Željne

This name was borrowed into Gottschee German as Seele, and the modern Slovene name Željne was then re-borrowed from the German dative plural form in Seelen 'in Željne'.


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