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a
have two plurals: one from the foreign language and the other formed according to the rules for plural formation in English. The foreign plural is usually kept for scientific or specialized use.
an index some indexes/indices
so m e fo r m u I a s /fo r m u I a e
pair of"'
aformula
To talk about more than one we talk about however many pairs o[..
When they are used as ordinary numbers, words such as dozen and
million have no pluralform.
nine million
stars
When they are used to mean a large number, they do have a plural form, which can be used as a partitive.
There are millions of pebbles
I
onthe beach.
Foreign plurals
Nouns that have come into English from foreign languages can:
axis crisis
two axes
two crises
othesourus
'
severalthesauruses
(instead ofthesauri)