Write the plurals of the following words, and tell how they are formed in each case: dainty, sauce, eulogy, feast, city, chief, calf, day, lily, copy, loaf, roof, half, valley, donkey.

To this the addition of the letter g makes a plural in the animate form, so that the translation is deer of the water, an evident acknowledgment of its importance as an item in their means of subsistence.

Plurals by composition: backstairs, cocklestairs, firearms, headquarters, hotcockles, spatterdashes, self-affairs.

For this purpose words which lack it in their penultimate syllables, take the consonant n to make their plurals for inanimates, and g for animates.

[Footnote 30: Khosráu (Cyrus) is the title of several ancient kings of Persia, and is here used in the plural to denote monarchs in general.

6.The vowel a, at the end of a word, (except in the questionable term huzza, or when silent, as in guinea,) has always its Italian or middle sound, as heard in the interjection aha! a sound which readily unites with that of s flat, and which ought, in deliberate speech, to be carefully preserved in plurals from this ending: as, Canada, the Canadas; cupola, cupolas; comma, commas; anathema, anathemas.

But even if this be not the meaning, is Mr. White correct in saying that influence had no plural at that time?[I]

Five of these make the Latin plural like the singular; but the mere English scholar has no occasion to be told which they are.

teteuctin, plural with reduplication of teuctli, a noble, a ruler, a lord.

"Therefore you ought to say, 'Better one hundred years of Europe than two cycles of Cathay.'" "I bow to custom," said I. "Every one speaks of a bicycle as a wheel, and I shall not introduce the plural into the name of my good steed.

Sometimes, when different numbers occur together, we find the plural noun put last, and the pronoun made plural after both, especially if this noun is a mere substitute for the other; as, "What's justice to a man, or laws, That never comes within their claws.