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Afaik it's only with Latin that English-speakers insist on universal adoption of the foreign plural. For other words the irregularity is a rare exception―while
by aasasd 8y ago
Afaik it's only with Latin that English-speakers insist on universal adoption of the foreign plural. For other words the irregularity is a rare exception―while for Latin it's pretty much regularity instead.
For some reason, people don't seem so keen on using French plural forms for French words: e.g. "animaux" and "journaux." Same with German ones, Italian, Yiddish or Arabic. Probably because borrowed words are mangled to the rules of the adopting language, like it's done everywhere.
IMO not only using Latin plurals in English doesn't make sense and is rather arbitrary, but it's kept around by people insisting on correcting others contrary to those others' intuition. It's time to stop.