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Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design by rerdavies on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:05PM (#50112976)
Replace language with an actually sensible one, and press any key to continue!

If nothing else, that is a truly sadistic trivia question. I wonder if there are any other words in the English language whose plural form is spelled the same, but pronounced differently.

Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design by swiftcoder on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:14AM (#50114357)
I think all the others that do this are loanwords from French? We keep the silent s at the end in the singular, and make it audible in the plural - faux pas, corps, précis, etc.

There are a bunch of other heteronyms, but I can't think of others that differ specifically in the plural

Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design by rerdavies on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:08AM (#50115548)
Excellent! And even stranger. In French, the singular and plural forms have the same pronunciation! Damned Rosbif can't do ANYTHING right. lol.
Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design by mzi on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:09AM (#50114706)
Corps. And you do have past and present of reading spelled the same and pronounced differently.
Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design by frankvdwaal on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:10AM (#50115134)
If you want to take the weirdness a step further, just look at the plural for "woman". When you write "women" you only change the second vowel, but when you pronounce that same word you only change the first.
Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design by somat on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:44AM (#50115375)
It is a french word and it is inherently plural, sort of like pants, by my best guess, having only looked it up just now, singuler chassis would be a case.

So chassis, the thing full of parts, case, same thing but without the parts?