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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'', Shadwell's instructions to Newt are to search for:
{{quote| 1. [[Burn the Witch|Witches.]]<br />
2. Unexplainable Phenomenons. Phenomenatrices. Phenomenice. Things, ye ken well what I mean. }}
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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Riley comments that, after falling in with the main characters, he suddenly finds himself needing to know the plural of "apocalypse".
** In another episode the Trio kept stumbling over the plural of "nemesis." Became a [[Brick Joke]] when a vampire the next season said it was "nemeses," which Buffy noted.
* The girls of ''[[I CarlyICarly]]'' spend a fairly large amount of "iGo to Japan" arguing of the current plural of the word "possum".
* There is a variant of this in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' (subverted maybe?). GOB is dense enough that he think he can avoid using an "S" by switching to a different plural noun. GOB has just chipped a tooth and is now whistling his S's:
{{quote| GOB: I have a few terms(whistle)... I mean conditions(whistle)... I have one term and one condition.}}
 
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Tyranids in [[Warhammer 40 K40000]] have the Carnifex. Good luck getting the fans to agree on a plural.
** ...[[Completely Missing the Point|Bad news]]?
* In [[Magic: theThe Gathering]], a powerful mana-generating card is the Mox (Mox Ruby, Mox Sapphire, and so forth). Traditionally, the plural is "Moxen".
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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