"' He and his childhood friends Pete Shotton and Ivan Vaughan often played in the wooded area behind the building, which Lennon nicknamed in the plural " Strawberry Fields.

* reference to a group containing men and women, for example (" Your friends have arrived — they were early ") uses the French masculine plural pronoun " ils " instead of the feminine " elles " but in English both translate to " they ".

k. The Greek plural noun adelphoi is normally rendered “ brothers ” but may be changed to such expressions as “ fellow believers ” or “ dear friends ” in appropriate contexts.

The word Mi ' kmaq is a plural word meaning ' my friends ' ( singular Míkm ); the adjectival form is Míkmaw.

The Diadochi ( plural of Latin Diadochus, from, Diadokhoi, " Successors ") were the rival generals, family and friends of Alexander the Great who fought for the control of Alexander's empire after his death in 323 BC.

Talkoot ( from Finnish: talkoo, almost always used in plural, talkoot ) is a Finnish expression for a gathering of friends and neighbors to accomplish a task, similar to a bee or a barn raising in English.

Originally a second-person plural, Vos came to be used as a more polite second-person singular pronoun to be used among one's familiar friends.

" Abdal " is the plural of " Badal " or rather " Badeel ", and means " those who get replaced ", " those who serve as a partial replacement to the role of the prophets " or " friends of God ".

Philoi ( plural of Philos ) was a title to the royal friends, advisors of the king ( basileus ) in ancient Macedonia.

Merriam-Webster notes, " Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective .... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

Though semantically singular or ambiguous, singular they remains morphologically and syntactically plural ( e. g. it still takes plural forms of verbs ).

In Dutch, a distinction still exists between on the one hand ' de Nederlanden ' ( plural, the Low Countries ) and ' Nederland ' ( singular, the present-day state of the Netherlands ) that is a consequence of this separation in the 17th century.

However, some nouns are pronounced differently in their plural forms: for example, œil (" eye ") becomes yeux, cheval (" horse ") becomes chevaux, and os (" bone " or " bones ") is pronounced differently when it is plural () from when it is singular (); and even with nouns for which this is not the case, a distinction will still usually be made in speech, as there will usually be a neighboring article or determiner whose pronunciation does change with the noun's number ( due to number agreement ; see below ).

So Nederland ( singular ) is used for the modern nation and de Nederlanden ( plural ) for the domains of Charles V. However, in official use the name of the Dutch kingdom is still Kingdom of the Netherlands ( Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ); the plural has not been dropped.

Later still, the plural " Sileni " went out of use and the only references were to one individual named Silenus, the teacher and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus.

Château ( plural châteaux ; ) or chateau is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally — and still most frequently — in French-speaking regions.

In Appendix F of The Lord of the Rings it is explained that if we still spoke of dwarves regularly, English might have retained a special plural for the word dwarf as with goose — geese.

As Reverend is traditionally an adjective it is still often considered grammatically incorrect to form the plural Reverends.

The new municipality is still colloquially referred to in the plural, " de Dongeradelen ".

At that time, the show's title was changed to the singular Sábado Gigante, although some long-time fans in Chile still call it by the plural.

In Biblical, Mishnaic, and Medieval Hebrew, like Arabic and other Semitic languages, all nouns can have singular, plural or dual forms, and there is still a debate whether there are vestiges of dual verbal forms and pronouns.

But its spelling slightly changed in European languages: Latin palatinus, plural palatini was still an office in Merovingian times, today referred to as the Count Palatine.

Official terms in successor states of the Soviet Union differ, but some still use a cognate of the Russian term, e. g. voblast ( voblasts, voblasts ', ) is used for provinces of Belarus, and oblys ( plural: oblystar ) for provinces of Kazakhstan.

), which is constructed with the plural adjective, Elohim Hayiym but still takes singular verbs.

Nevertheless, the new German spelling is not fully phonetic, and it is still necessary to know the plural of a noun in order to spell its singular correctly: Los – Lose, Floß – Flöße.

Also, people still referred to escudos at the time of the changeover in multiples of the older currency real ( plural reis ).

A still life ( plural still lifes ) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural ( food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells ) or man-made ( drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on ).

Although some other denominations, such as the Community of Christ, view sealing as an artifact of Smith's practice of plural marriage, some do still perform them.

However, with federal and state bans on the practice, and a divine injunction to obey " the law of the land ," plural marriage has been given up in the contemporary Strangite organization, though belief in its correctness is still required and affirmed.

The Latinate plural " vaginae " is rarely used in English.

The third logical possibility, rarely found in languages, is an unmarked plural contrasting with marked singular.

The word " shellfish " is both singular and plural ; the rarely used " shellfishes " is sometimes employed to distinguish among various types of shellfish.

The plural form is mongooses, or, rarely, mongeese.

In modern Finnish, noki means soot and nokia is its inflected plural, although this form of the word is rarely if ever used.

The Polish word pierogi is plural ; the singular form pieróg is rarely used, as a typical serving consists of several pierogi.

Acanthus ( plural: acanthus, rarely acanthuses in English, or acanthi in Latin ), in its feminine form acantha ( plura: acanthae ), is the Latinised form of the ancient Greek word acanthos or akanthos, referring to the Acanthus plant.

), and rarely M < sup > r </ sup > ( plural: M < sup > rs </ sup >), but never Mr., which is only for Mister.

* lack of second-person verb forms ( except for some parts of Brazil ) and, in various regions, plural third-person forms as well ( mostly lower-class speakers ) ( tu cantas becomes tu canta or você canta ( Brazilian uses the pronoun " você " a lot but rarely uses " tu ", except in some states such as Amazonas and Rio Grande do Sul, in the latter " você " is almost never used in informal speech, with " tu " being used instead, using both second and third-person forms depending on the speaker )

The phonology of this term according to the grammatical principles of Tamazight is as follows: Gnawi ( singular ), Gnawa ( collective ) and Gnawn ( plural rarely used ).

Because of this, whole tapeworms, including the scolices ( plural of " scolex "), are very rarely passed after administration of praziquantel.

* When accompanied by a " large number ", i. e. one ending with a digit outside the 1 – 4 range ( or one ending with any of the combination 11, 12, 13, 14 ) the genitive plural is used: 111 evra ( Cyrillic: 111 евра ), 25 centi ( Cyrillic: 25 центи ) or rarely 25 centa ( Cyrillic: 25 цента ).

Transurethral resection of the prostate ( commonly known as a TURP, plural TURPs, and rarely as a transurethral prostatic resection, TUPR ) is a urological operation.

A leiomyoma ( plural is ' leiomyomata ') is a benign smooth muscle neoplasm that is very rarely ( 0. 1 %) premalignant.

The Greek plural is foustanelles ( Greek: φουστανέλλες ) but as with the ( semi-correct ) foustanellas, it is rarely employed by native English speakers.

In modern Arabic, the feminine and plural forms of the elative are rarely used, except when the elative word is prefixed with the definite article.

An optio ( plural optiones ;, from optāre, " to choose ", because an optio was chosen by his centurion ), sometimes anglicized option ( though rarely, to avoid confusion with " option "), was a soldier in the Roman army who held a position similar to that of an executive officer in modern armies.