The Ladies' Lexicon and Parlour Companion: Containing Nearly Every Word in the English Language and Exhibiting the Plurals of Nouns and the Participles of Verbs; Being Also Particularly Adapted to the Use of Academies and Schools (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Ladies' Lexicon and Parlour Companion: Containing Nearly Every Word in the English Language and Exhibiting the Plurals of Nouns and the Participles of Verbs; Being Also Particularly Adapted to the Use of Academies and Schools The plural number of nouns is generally formed by adding s to the singular: as, dove, doves; face, faces; thought, thoughts. -but when the substantive singular ends ih r, ch, soft, sh, 33, or s, we add es in the plural: as, boa), boxes; church, churches; lash. Lashes kiss, kisses; ...
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Excerpt from The Ladies' Lexicon and Parlour Companion: Containing Nearly Every Word in the English Language and Exhibiting the Plurals of Nouns and the Participles of Verbs; Being Also Particularly Adapted to the Use of Academies and Schools The plural number of nouns is generally formed by adding s to the singular: as, dove, doves; face, faces; thought, thoughts. -but when the substantive singular ends ih r, ch, soft, sh, 33, or s, we add es in the plural: as, boa), boxes; church, churches; lash. Lashes kiss, kisses; rebus, rebuses. If the singular ends in ch hard, the plural is formed by adding s as, monarch, monarchs; distich, distichs. Nouns-which end in 0, have sometimes es added to the plural. As, cargo, echo, hero, negro, manifesto, potato, volcano, no and some. Times only 3; as, folio, nuncio, punctilio, seraglio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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