Perplexing Plurals: Difference between revisions

Part of what you know when you know a language is how to make your words fit into a grammatical system. This can be fairly simple, as in English (the odd -s here, the odd -ed there) or fairly complex, as in the Russian case system. One thing all systems have in common though, is that they work all the time. For every singular, there is a plural.<ref> This is, of course, not true. Even in languages with a straightforward singular/plural distinction, there are always things like [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurale_tantum:Plurale tantum|"scissors" or "pants"]], or [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun:Mass noun|"stuff"]])</ref> It might be regular (trope, tropes) or irregular (goose, geese), but you know it's there and you know what it is.

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