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  2. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.

  3. Guarantee - Wikipedia

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    A guarantee is a form of transaction in which one person, to obtain some trust, confidence or credit for another, agrees to be answerable for them. It may also designate a treaty through which claims, rights or possessions are secured. [1]

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Countable nouns generally have singular and plural forms. [4] In most cases the plural is formed from the singular by adding -[e]s (as in dogs, bushes), although there are also irregular forms (woman/women, foot/feet), including cases where the two forms are identical (sheep, series). For more details see English plural.

  5. Plural form of words ending in -us - Wikipedia

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    Examples are stewardi (supposed plural of stewardess) and Elvi (as a plural for Elvis imitators). The Toyota corporation has determined that their Prius model should have the plural form Prii, even though the Latin word prius has a plural priora, the Lada Priora having prior claim to that name—though the common plural is "Priuses".

  6. Plural - Wikipedia

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    The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or PL), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.

  7. Surety - Wikipedia

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    In finance, a surety / ˈ ʃ ʊər ɪ t i /, surety bond, or guaranty involves a promise by one party to assume responsibility for the debt obligation of a borrower if that borrower defaults. Usually, a surety bond or surety is a promise by a surety or guarantor to pay one party (the obligee ) a certain amount if a second party (the principal ...

  8. Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (plurals) - Wikipedia

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    Titles should be written in a way that sounds natural for most speakers of the language. Also, if you change the titles that are now plural to singular, someone will have to go through the articles and change most instances of plural to the singular. The first sentence after the bulleted list in the section Miles per hour#Usage is the following:

  9. Dual (grammatical number) - Wikipedia

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    Dual (abbreviated DU) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural.When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring to precisely two of the entities (objects or persons) identified by the noun or pronoun acting as a single unit or in unison.