Irregular plural nouns - the MUTANT PLURALS발음듣기
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Irregular plural nouns - the MUTANT PLURALS
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Yes friends, these words have mutant superpowers in that they can transform weirdly and obnoxiously, not obeying any other rules of English pluralization.발음듣기
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So the plural of foot is not foots, the plural of 'woman' is not 'womans', the plural of 'tooth' is not 'tooths'.발음듣기
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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
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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
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, are the only words in English that behave this way.발음듣기
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And provided you're not borrowing any one else' hats, ideally you won't have to worry about lice very often.발음듣기
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