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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Lotus Cars | | | |  Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Plurals of numbersEnglish, like some other languages, treats large numerals like nouns, such as in "ten soldiers" and "a hundred soldiers." This is why dozens is preferred to tens while hundreds and thousands are all right.
Plurals of numerals differ according to how they are used. Such words include dozen, score, hundred, thousand, million, and so forth. The following examples apply to all of these.
When modified by a number, the plural is not inflected, that is, has no ...
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Almost-regular plurals Many nouns of Italian or Spanish origin are exceptions to the -oes rule:
Many nouns ending in a voiceless fricative mutate that sound to a voiced fricative before adding the plural ending. In the case of [f] changing to [v] the mutation is indicated in the orthography as well:
Some r ...
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Regular plurals The plural morpheme in English is suffixed to the end of most nouns. The plural form is usually represented orthographically by adding -s to the singular form (see exceptions below). The phonetic form of the plural morpheme is [z] by default. When the preceding sound is a voiceless consonant, it is pronounced [s]. Examples:
Where a noun ends in a sibilant sound — one of [s] ...
See also:English plural, English plural - Regular plurals, English plural - Almost-regular plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals, English plural - Irregular Germanic plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals of foreign origin, English plural - Plurals of numbers, English plural - Plurals and units of measure, English plural - Defective nouns, English plural - Nouns with multiple plurals, English plural - Plurals of symbols and abbreviations, English plural - Plurals of headless nouns, English plural - Plural to singular by back-formation, English plural - Plurals of names of peoples, English plural - Discretionary plurals Read more here: » English plural: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Regular plurals |
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - Cosworth - The Cosworth F1 car Cosworth made an attempt at designing a full GP car in 1969. The car designed by Robin Herd used an original 4WD transmission (different from the Ferguson used by all other 4WD cars of the sixties) and powered by a magnesium version of the DFV unit. The car was planned to drive at the 1969 British GP but it was silently withdrawn. When Herd left to form March Engineering the project was cancelled. The car is remembered by some as one ...
See also:Cosworth, Cosworth - Corporate history, Cosworth - Engines, Cosworth - Association with Ford, Cosworth - The DFV Double Four Valve, Cosworth - The BDA series, Cosworth - The YB series, Cosworth - Other Formula One Engines, Cosworth - Other Indycar Engines, Cosworth - Road cars, Cosworth - The Cosworth F1 car, Cosworth - Summary of F1 engine use Read more here: » Cosworth: Encyclopedia II - Cosworth - The Cosworth F1 car |
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Defective nouns Some nouns have no singular form. Such a noun is called a plurale tantum:
annals, billiards*, measles, nuptials, thanks, tidings, victuals, vittles, credentials
* This refers to the table game, not the number 1015 in the long scale system of numeric names, which can be singular billiard.
However, some of them do have singular adjective forms, such as in billiard ball. In addition, some of them are treated as singular in construction, such as in "billiards is a game playe ...
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Nouns with multiple plurals Some nouns have two plurals, one used to refer to a number of things considered individually, the other to refer to a number of things collectively. In some cases, one of the two is nowadays archaic or dialectal.
Note a: Childer has all but disappeared, but can still be seen in Childermas (Innocents' Day). Note b: Kine is still used in rural English dialects. Note c: Dies is used as the plural for die in the sense of a mould; dic ...
See also:English plural, English plural - Regular plurals, English plural - Almost-regular plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals, English plural - Irregular Germanic plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals of foreign origin, English plural - Plurals of numbers, English plural - Plurals and units of measure, English plural - Defective nouns, English plural - Nouns with multiple plurals, English plural - Plurals of symbols and abbreviations, English plural - Plurals of headless nouns, English plural - Plural to singular by back-formation, English plural - Plurals of names of peoples, English plural - Discretionary plurals Read more here: » English plural: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Nouns with multiple plurals |
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - Mark Thatcher - Business life Thatcher initially hoped to become an accountant but failed his accountancy exams three times. He was later employed in the jewellery business and was involved in a succession of unsuccessful career attempts in the Far East. It is his business dealings at the time that his mother was Prime Minister, however, that were the subject of much press attention.
Thatcher is alleged by a Saudi dissident, Mohammed Khilewi, as well as by former Labour MP Tam Dalyell, and The Guardian newspaper, to have received a multimillion-pound commis ...
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Plural to singular by back-formation Some words have started out with unusually formed singulars and plurals, but more "normal" singular-plural pairs have resulted by back-formation. For an example from the vegetable world, pease was the singular and peasen the plural, but over the centuries, first pease became the plural and pea the singular, and finally the plural was altered to peas. Similarly, termites and primates were the three-syllable plurals of termes and primas, respectively, but these singulars were lost, ...
See also:English plural, English plural - Regular plurals, English plural - Almost-regular plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals, English plural - Irregular Germanic plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals of foreign origin, English plural - Plurals of numbers, English plural - Plurals and units of measure, English plural - Defective nouns, English plural - Nouns with multiple plurals, English plural - Plurals of symbols and abbreviations, English plural - Plurals of headless nouns, English plural - Plural to singular by back-formation, English plural - Plurals of names of peoples, English plural - Discretionary plurals Read more here: » English plural: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Plural to singular by back-formation |
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Plurals of headless nouns Linguist Steven Pinker, in his book, The Language Instinct discusses what he calls "headless words", typically bahuvrihis, like lowlife and Red Sox, where the life and sox are not heads semantically; that is, a lowlife is not a type of life, nor are Red Sox a kind of sock. Thus, more than one lowlife is lowlifes and a single member of the Boston baseball team is a Red Sox. Other examples include the Toronto ice-hockey team Maple Leafs, not Maple Leaves, sabertooth and s ...
See also:English plural, English plural - Regular plurals, English plural - Almost-regular plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals, English plural - Irregular Germanic plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals of foreign origin, English plural - Plurals of numbers, English plural - Plurals and units of measure, English plural - Defective nouns, English plural - Nouns with multiple plurals, English plural - Plurals of symbols and abbreviations, English plural - Plurals of headless nouns, English plural - Plural to singular by back-formation, English plural - Plurals of names of peoples, English plural - Discretionary plurals Read more here: » English plural: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Plurals of headless nouns |
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Plurals of symbols and abbreviations Symbols and abbreviations whose plural would be ambiguous if only an s were added are pluralized by adding 's.
"mind your p's and q's"
Usage is divided on whether to extend this usage of the apostrophe to non-ambiguous cases, such as the plurals of numbers (1990's), words used as terms (his writing contains a lot of but's), and capitalized abbreviations (PC's). Some writers use this form in a desire for consistency, wh ...
See also:English plural, English plural - Regular plurals, English plural - Almost-regular plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals, English plural - Irregular Germanic plurals, English plural - Irregular plurals of foreign origin, English plural - Plurals of numbers, English plural - Plurals and units of measure, English plural - Defective nouns, English plural - Nouns with multiple plurals, English plural - Plurals of symbols and abbreviations, English plural - Plurals of headless nouns, English plural - Plural to singular by back-formation, English plural - Plurals of names of peoples, English plural - Discretionary plurals Read more here: » English plural: Encyclopedia II - English plural - Plurals of symbols and abbreviations |
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| | | | | Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia II - Mark Thatcher - Equatorial Guinea affair On August 25, 2004, Thatcher was arrested at 10 Dawn Avenue, his thatched-roof mansion in Constantia, a rich suburb outside Cape Town, South Africa. He was charged later that day with contravening two sections of South Africa's "Foreign Military Assistance Act", which bans South African residents from taking part in any foreign military activity. The charges related to "possible funding and logistical assistance in relation to [an] attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea" organised by Simon Mann. He was released on bail of 2 million Rand and spe ...
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