Comments by "⃠" (@U20E0) on "Weird plurals in English: Men, geese, sheep, knives and many more" video.

  1. mice
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  2. octopi hypercorrect. Octopodes is a correct plural, but that is not actually used often enough for it to be in most dictionaries, so using it will just make you look like you want to flex. You should probably just say octopuses and keep it at that.
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  3. but do they actually become feminine or does the o just change to an a?
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  4. it is
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  5. The word “Police” refers to the entire police force, and when you are summoning the police you are not summoning multiple law enforcement agencies. Practically no one ever needs to talk about multiple police forces, so i guess that’s why the plural became nonexistent. That’s just my guess though
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  6. All languages are equally hard to learn. ( and if you are learning a language from a language family you already know, you have just done some of the learning already beforehand, so it seems much easier )
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  7. The plural of phalanx is phalanxes. But there is another word for phalanx — phalange — and the plural of that is phalanges Why there are two words in the first place is beyond my understanding
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  8. Actually wait, for some reason i forgot in the moment; phalange might be hypercorrection. Phalanx is a greek word; the plural of greek loan words ending in -x is -ges. ( as opposed to Latin words in -x, which is -ces )
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  9. They are different words which happen to be written the same. That happens in pretty much any language.
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  10. Just spin the wheel
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  11. Bonus does come from Latin “Bonus”, but that is an adjective, and you cannot define the plural of that adjective per se, because Latin has genders. boni is not correct but it’s not totally correct either. It is even more interesting that boni is not recognized by spellcheck but bonī is.
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