40 Verbs to Use for the Word s

" The plural number of nouns is regularly formed by adding s or es to the singular: as, book, books; box, boxes; sofa, sofas; hero, heroes.

" "There is a lady in the case?" suggested a young doctor, who, by virtue of having spent six months in the South, dropped his r-s, and talked of "niggahs" in a way to make a Georgian's hair stand on end.

" "But you said s-something was on?" "No, I didn't.

In my first hasty reading of the play I took the long double "s" to be a double "f": the character is "La Busse." Mr. C.H. Herford, to whom I showed the MS., writes as follows:

"Ongfong," said 'Enery Irving briskly, seizing the opportunity to reëstablish himself as a French speaker, "means 'children'; spelled e-n-f-a-n-t-s, pronounced ongfong.

She told him the proper manner of doing it, and he followed her directions; but he was much troubled that he could not understand the whys and wherefores himself.

"The possessive case plural, ending in es, has the apostrophe, but omits the s; as, Eagles' wings.

[Footnote 13: The sense here requires an s, and the space in the Quarto between the e and the comma gives the probability that a letter has dropt out.]

And let those who think with Murray, that our present version of the Scriptures is the best standard of English grammar, remember that in it they have no warrant for substituting s or es for the old termination eth, any more than for ceasing to use the solemn style of the second person familiarly.

It is impossible to tell the whys and wherefores of sea-prejudices.

He hadn't grasped the whys and wherefores of all this confusion, until he caught sight of a little long-legged dog who ran over the ice with a goose in his mouth.

Co-commendations, and s-she hath s-sent ye this r-ring.

From the jury-box where the twelve sworn brethren were whispering together, a sound in the general stillness like a prolonged "hiss-s-s!" was heard; and then, in answer to the challenge of the officer, "How say you, gentlemen of the jury, guilty or not guilty?" came in a melancholy voice the finding, "Guilty.

The monkey imitates the s of its master.

Perhaps he thought the plural sign must involve an other s, like the singular.

If the example given be read with any regard to the cæsural pause, as undoubtedly it should be, the th of their cannot be joined, as above, to the word tale; nor do I see any propriety in joining the s of music to the third foot rather than to the fourth.

The gossips wanted to know all the whys and wherefores, but the boy kept his room in the hotel, or only walked out when accompanied by Ethel or one of the three nieces.

It absurdly makes "s or es" a sign of two opposite styles.

Ole Uncle S. sez he, "I guess He'd skurce ha' stopped," sez he, "To mind his p-s an' q-s, ef thet weasan' Hed b'longed to ole J.B.,

"I never lithp, Grand," answered the boy, "when I talk thlowly, andNo, I mean when I talk s-lowly and take pains.

For instance, in comparing the and these, although the one sound of the two letters, t and h, puzzled him, and likewise the silent e, he conjectured that the s must stand for the hissing sound; and when he looked at other words which had that sound, and perceived an s in every one of them, then he was sure of it.

[Transcriber's note: the preceding four *s are actually four instances of the "infinity" symbol (like a digit 8 rotated horizontally)]passum.

Thus Brightland gives some examples, which are contrary to his rule, adopting that strange custom of putting the s in Roman, and the name in Italic; "as, King Charles's Court, and St. James's Park.

The fifth book of the New Testament records the s of the Apostles.

I wanted to commit suicide before I'd finished telephoning all the C-o-h-e-n-s in the world.

40 Verbs to Use for the Word  s