Plural Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Nouns lacking plural or singular form== Certain nouns do not form plurals. A large class of such nouns in many languages is that of [[uncountable noun]]s, representing mass or abstract concepts such as ''air'', ''information'', ''physics''. However, many nouns of this type also have countable meanings or other contexts in which a plural can be used; for example ''water'' can take a plural when it means water from a particular source (''different waters make for different beers'') and in expressions like ''by the waters of Babylon''. Certain [[collective noun]]s do not have a singular form and exist only in the plural, such as "[[clothes]]". There are also nouns found exclusively or almost exclusively in the plural, such as the English ''scissors''. These are referred to with the term ''[[plurale tantum]]''. Occasionally, a plural form can pull double duty as the singular form (or vice versa), as has happened with [[the word "data"]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page