Plural Word...s

 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 for the change who did not speak English but spoke Norse and learning English would've been difficult as they were adults and it is more difficult for adults to learn another language especially without an accent which resulted in cutting away the crazy plurals and overtime english adapted the way of the vikings.

Ted-Ed. "A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorter" Youtube, uploaded by Ted-Ed, 22nd of July 2013 of Publication, https://youtu.be/_gwJHuEa9Jc.