Irregular plural nouns - the MUTANT PLURALS

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Irregular plural nouns - the MUTANT PLURALS발음듣기

[Voiceover] Hello, grammarians.발음듣기

Welcome to Irregular Plurals, Part IV.발음듣기

The Mutant Plurals. (moans)발음듣기

Yes friends, these words have mutant superpowers in that they can transform weirdly and obnoxiously, not obeying any other rules of English pluralization.발음듣기

But here's the cool thing.발음듣기

There are only seven words that behave this way. What way?발음듣기

I'll explain by writing all of them down.발음듣기

The words are foot, woman, man, tooth, goose, mouse, louse.발음듣기

Looks pretty straightforward, right?발음듣기

The thing about these words is that none of them take s as a plural.발음듣기

So the plural of foot is not foots, the plural of 'woman' is not 'womans', the plural of 'tooth' is not 'tooths'.발음듣기

The reason these are called mutant plurals is because the vowel sound, the ooh, or the uh, or the ah, or the ooh, or the ooh, or the ou, or the ou, turns into a different sound, turns into a different vowel sound.발음듣기

So the plural of foot is not foots, but feet.발음듣기

The plural of woman is not womans, but women.발음듣기

The plural of man is not mans, but men.발음듣기

The plural of tooth is not tooths, but teeth.발음듣기

The plural of goose is not gooses, but geese.발음듣기

The plural of mouse is not mouses, but mice.발음듣기

And the plural of louse is not louses, but lice.발음듣기

You can see that mouse and louse actually change their end spelling as well from se to ce.발음듣기

Even though it's the same sound, louse, lice, for whatever reason, just from quirk of our spelling history, not only do we change the vowels used here, we also change the consonants you say.발음듣기

Why is this the case?발음듣기

I'm so glad you asked.발음듣기

I'm going to save that for another video.발음듣기

In the meantime, just these seven words.발음듣기

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, are the only words in English that behave this way.발음듣기

So you're in luck.발음듣기

This is a handful of words to memorize.발음듣기

And provided you're not borrowing any one else' hats, ideally you won't have to worry about lice very often.발음듣기

That's my hope.발음듣기

You can learn anything. David out.발음듣기

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