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Spelling Rules

Noun plurals

mice
concert-hall as-adjective
zeros/zeroes,
nouns
bureauxi/curricu
some
-f, lives, have alternative
some
boy, chateau,crises,have become notchange have alternative
church, donkey,boys,addtrays, -y and alternative
anglicized
most
volcanoes
some
cu
certain have alternative
vowel have Filipinosbutheroes, add -es lums
some
pianos, concert
hoofs/hooves,women,
chiid, if exception: videos, does
piurai
gymnaslums
roofs,men, media, -halis
criteria,chateaux,
photo,tooth, medium,fish*not city
crisis,
bureau,
some centre,true noun normallybecomes piurai,
othersnouns very
knife, loaf, shelf,knives,handkerchiefs,
safes,uitos/mosqunoun-used-
wh goose,children,some
tomatoes,
mosq
flies,followsechoes,
formulae/formulas,nouns)
-fewolves,calves,
deer,uncountable
aircraft,
centres,
boxes loaves,selves,andwivesadd zoos,
Eskimos,someteeth,original
commanders-in-chief,
add -y arves, scarfs/scarves
courts-martial,
piurai losses, followsvalleysadd shelves,halves, thieves,chiefs, reefs, kilos,
bus, 1055, memo, kilo,photos, memos, 50105,
endings
bodies, lorriesadd city
endings
fungi/funguses,
dropendings cellos, commoncargoes,geese,keep stadiums,
aquariums,
banjos/banjoes,
c1iffs change (but
radios,ending sons-in-Iaw
aircraft, endings
singular brush,churches, brushes, -ies nouns
criterion, sheep,no
tooth-brush, tooth-brushes,
passers-by,
points -es donkeys,-s if -y consonantKennedys, Marysnouns drop -s itoesare
exception: loch-Iochs
buses, ladies, proper -vesleaves, add -s wharfs/feet, rricul sheep, these
safe. handkerchief,
court-marshals
mouse
volcano
box valley thief, solo, of
nouns curriculum cliff
self, wolf. cello, nouns
tray, half, calf.
origin mosquito aquarium, stadium,
hero,cargo,
leaf, wife Filipino
radio, video, zoo,
Eskimo man, woman,
foot,
scarf fish
body,lorry
life,
formula,
deer,
piano,
zero,
-ch, -sh, -x
foreign gymnasium
final -o
final -f, -fe roof, chief, reef,
hoof, wharf,
compound fungus, final -y tomato, echo,
irregular
banjo,
commander-in-chief,
fly, lady, Mary change
Kennedy, son-in-Iaw
passer-by, no
court-martial
final -s -ss,
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*the piurai form 'flshes' is sometimes used.
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