Tomato / tomatos; hero / heros; allegro / allegros; piano / pianos. No need to be bamboozled by which o-nouns are made plural with “s” and which use “es”. Simplify your writing life: adopt The Anarchist's Magic-O Guideline. Just...say...“os”. I've never met an o-noun that loses its identity with this guideline.
You gotta be kidding!!! I keep a list handy of which is which - o-words that take an "e" and o-words that don't. My college professors will flip out!!!!!
ReplyDeleteTell your prof to "chill", and talk to me. I'll straighten out the poor befuddled instructor.
ReplyDeleteI learned that musical nouns ending in o do not use an e, but a bunch of other ones do.
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