
19-Feb-2006, 06:40
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Re: plural nouns Formula- formulas, formulae (The scond is the Latin form, while the first is following normal English plural rules)
Cloth would just take -s for me, so I can't see what the second form is.
Shot- shot/shots he difference is that the plural with -s refers to the number of times a gun is fired, whilethe plural that doesn't change refers to the small metal balls that are fired from a shotgun, so if a bird that had been hunted had many small balls in it, you'd say it had been hit by a lot of shot.
Last edited by Tdol; 19-Feb-2006 at 06:42.
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