See that mouse next to your computer? Pretend there are two of them. What would you call them: “mice” or “mouses”? In the first 15 years or so of its mainstream life, the computer mouse has had an ...

Readers of this column won't have trouble coming up with the plural version of most nouns. For example, we almost instinctively know that the plural of "boat" is "boats." But a special category of ...

A noun is a word used to identify something.There are a lot of nouns.There are many patterns to look out for when you turn a noun into a plural noun.Let’s look at a few of these patterns. In some ...

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English is full of irregular plural forms based on Latin and Greek. They can be confusing (apparatus? apparati? apparatuses?). They can be fun (the brothers Winklevii! and the flying Elvii! all ...

When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...

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Sir, – We refer to a brace of pheasant so surely the solution to Mattie Lennon's conundrum (September 8th) regarding the plural of computer mouse is a brace of mouse. – Yours, etc, Sir, – Continuing ...

Sir, – In expressing a dilemma about pluralising "computer mouse", and as to whether it becomes "mice" or "mouses", Mattie Lennon (Letters, September 8th) is not the first to ponder this. The eminent ...