{"id":13690,"date":"2015-12-28T23:32:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T23:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2015-12-28T23:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T23:32:27","slug":"english-plurals-oes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-plurals-oes\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  plurals:  -oes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor visits a favourite potential hazard of English.<\/h1>\n<p>Famously, <strong>potato<\/strong> and <strong>tomato<\/strong> require the addition of <em>-es<\/em> to make the plural:<\/p>\n<p>potato \u2192 potatoes<\/p>\n<p>tomato \u2192 tomatoes<\/p>\n<p>Unknown to me before today, <strong>veto<\/strong> and <strong>embargo<\/strong> follow the same pattern:<\/p>\n<p>veto    \u2192 vetoes<\/p>\n<p>embargo \u2192 embargoes<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps surprisingly, with motto, mango, and mosquito, the <em>e<\/em> is optional:<\/p>\n<p>mosquito \u2192 mosquitoes or mosquitos<\/p>\n<p>motto    \u2192 mottoes or mottos<\/p>\n<p>mango    \u2192 mangoes or mangos<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><u>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/u>.  Glasgow:  HarperCollins,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor visits a favourite potential hazard of English. Famously, potato and tomato require the addition of -es to make the plural: potato \u2192 potatoes tomato \u2192 tomatoes Unknown to me before today, veto and embargo follow the same pattern: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-plurals-oes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  plurals:  -oes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1300,1307,1302,1306,1301,1304,1305,1303],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-oes","tag-oes-vs-os","tag-embargoes","tag-optional-es","tag-plurals","tag-potatoes","tag-tomatoes","tag-vetoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13698,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions\/13698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}