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And cherries were ceries from French, leading to the singular form cherry. Lots of neat little things like this.
by adzm 7d ago
And cherries were ceries from French, leading to the singular form cherry. Lots of neat little things like this.
- Tagbert 6d agoAnd peas was both singular and plural like fish. "I ate a single peas" "I ate many peas" People thought it was a mistake and generated "pea" for a new singular.
- hrnnnnnn 6d agoSwedish does a similar thing where it takes the plural of an English word as the singular Swedish loanword. Kex = biscuit, from "cakes" Keps = hat, from "caps"
- Scharkenberg 6d agoGerman does it too: ein Keks = a cookie