Blog #8: A brief history of plural words What is a plural word? A plural word refers to more than one person, thing, place, or idea which are typically made plural through adding a suffix -s or -es at the end such as hat to hats or half to halves. There are also irregular plural words that take up unique forms like woman to women or goose to geese even groups have plural nouns like one team to two teams. [singular] boss [singular possessive] boss’s [plural] bosses [plural possessive] bosses’ Why don't we say Beek instead of Books? English and German were the same hundreds of years ago but overtime became vastly different but this means early English had similarities to German such as giving inanimate objects gender. A fork, gafol was a woman and a spoon, laefel was a man. There were countless of irregular plurals in old English such as a herd of goats is called a Gat but there was also other things at the end other than -s, there was also -ru like breadru,. Vikings were the reason