Readers of this column won't have trouble coming up with the plural version of most nouns. For example, we almost instinctively know that the plural of "boat" is "boats." But a special category of ...
♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and the games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (cheerful music) - Happy Tuesday, boys and girls.
The usual way to modify a noun in English is to put an adjective before the noun: nice view, tasty treat, hot day. But every once in a while, we put the adjective after the noun. Often this is because ...
See that mouse next to your computer? Pretend there are two of them. What would you call them: “mice” or “mouses”? In the first 15 years or so of its mainstream life, the computer mouse has had an ...
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Sir, – We refer to a brace of pheasant so surely the solution to Mattie Lennon's conundrum (September 8th) regarding the plural of computer mouse is a brace of mouse. – Yours, etc, Sir, – Continuing ...
Sir, – In expressing a dilemma about pluralising "computer mouse", and as to whether it becomes "mice" or "mouses", Mattie Lennon (Letters, September 8th) is not the first to ponder this. The eminent ...
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