![]() ![]() The linguist Peter Tiersma has found that whenever a set of objects can easily be construed as a single assemblage, a regular plural is in danger of congealing into a mass noun or an irregular plural. "In his song One Hippopotami, the comedian Alan Sherman sang, 'The plural of "half" is "whole" the plural of "two minks" is "one mink stole."' It is an astute observation.
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