English: plurals: -oes
The tutor visits a favourite potential hazard of English.
Famously, potato and tomato require the addition of -es to make the plural:
potato → potatoes
tomato → tomatoes
Unknown to me before today, veto and embargo follow the same pattern:
veto → vetoes
embargo → embargoes
Perhaps surprisingly, with motto, mango, and mosquito, the e is optional:
mosquito → mosquitoes or mosquitos
motto → mottoes or mottos
mango → mangoes or mangos
Interesting, eh?
HTH:)
Source:
Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus. Glasgow: HarperCollins,
2006.
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.
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