In other words, what is the plural of leaf? We’ll answer that question and explain the logic behind it. That way, you’ll know both the rule about pluralizing leaf and the grammatical principles behind it. The Plural Version of the Word Leaf The plural of leaf is leaves. Although ...
The leaf node in the top-level KV store includes a minimum key in the first low-level KV store and a pointer to the root node of the first low-level KV store. The method further includes determining a key-value insertion to the KV store would increase a number of keys in the first ...
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The original proposal in Zuraw (2000) used a stochastic version of Optimality Theory, but because stochastic OT was since discovered to be intractable (Pater 2008a, a.o.), we use the mathematically solid Maximum Entropy approach (Goldwater and Johnson 2003; Hayes and Wilson 2008; White 2014)...
Scarf —> scarves More examples: Leaf to leaves Wolf to Wolves Shelf to Shelves Knife to Knives Life to Lives Calf to Calves Elf to Elves Thief to Thieves Loaf to Loaves Half to Halves|@you_wu Yes, you’re right! American English does also accept scarfs,
Pluralia tantum are a type of noun that ought not to exist. Like many other linguistic terms, the term ‘pluralia tantum’ carries the implication that something is not quite right. Thus forms which are syncretic contradict the expectation that every grammatical function has a unique form, peri...
The first solution that comes to mind is something like: def plural(n, word): return "%d %s%s" %(n, word, n==1?'':'s') Of course, Python does not have the ?: operator! Once I bothered to write a function for plural, I decided to make it as general as possible. This ...
leaf/leaves shelf/shelves wolf/wolves Exceptions: chief/chiefs chef/chefs safe/safes 9. Add s to the end of singular nouns ending in ful. cupful/cupfuls spoonful/spoonfuls 10. Change the spelling of some words. cactus/cacti mouse/mice ...
Pluralia tantum are a type of noun that ought not to exist. Like many other linguistic terms, the term ‘pluralia tantum’ carries the implication that something is not quite right. Thus forms which are syncretic contradict the expectation that every grammatical function has a unique form, peri...