And, although each is created by misrepresenting a single incident, all are pluralized, creating even bigger lies.
Silly Bandz are colored rubber bands that are pluralized with a "z" for no apparent reason.
It is thought the word "meadow" was pluralized to come more trippingly off the tongue.
When using the possessive form of a plural--one that has been pluralized by adding an s--follow this format: employees', hyenas', trapeze artists'.
(A mass noun, such as milk or oxygen, cannot ordinarily be used in the plural, while a count noun is any noun that can be pluralized). Such information is given in some dictionaries designed for teaching, and the technique could well be adopted more generally.
An issue to do with the grammatical properties of proper names was whether they could be pluralized or quantified.
Only count nouns can be prefaced unqualifiedly by numerals or the indefinite article, and be pluralized without a category shift.
Water cannot be pluralized and retain its standard reference, since 'waters' either means kinds of water, or different bodies of water (e.g., lakes, rivers, pools, seas, rather than numerous water per se, which doesn't make sense unless used in a technical or stipulative way).
Some Japanese scholars have supported the theory that the tengu's image derives from that of the Hindu eagle deity Garuda, who was pluralized in Buddhist scripture as one of the major races of non-human beings.
Bonagiunta is able to see the difference between the two styles of poetry at this point, but I think he doesn't recognize the kind of uniqueness that Dante is claiming for himself here, because he says, "That your pens follow close behind the dictator". So he's pluralizing what Dante says only about himself.
There's more — much more.
