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Commonly used in articles to indicate the plural form of a word, serving as a replacement for the full term Plural:. Usage The template is typically followed by a semicolon ( : ) and then plural form of the word.
This template allows easy formatting of statements of the form "# thing(s)", with correct use of plurals. It uses the "plural" magic word , so it should work in other languages with minimal modification.
Allows easy formatting of statements using plural. Template parameters Parameter Description Type Status Number 1 The number of items: 0, 1, 2 etc. Number required Singular name 2 The text to use when one item is specified String required plural name 3 The text to use when two or more items are specified. The default is to append the singular form with 's'. String optional 4 4 no description ...
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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.
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".
Irregularly, English nouns are marked as plural in other ways, often inheriting the plural morphology of older forms of English or the languages that they are borrowed from. Plural forms from Old English resulted from vowel mutation (e.g., foot/feet), adding –en (e.g., ox/oxen), or making no change at all (e.g., this sheep/those sheep).
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