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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