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Plural of “insurance”?
- June 14, 2009, 5:29pm
insurance is noncountable n. therefore it cannot be used in plural f
Plural proper nouns ending in consonant-y
- June 14, 2009, 5:26pm
as far as I'm familiar with the proper nouns, you don't make any inflectional changes when making plural form.
with common nouns, as you know, y changes into ie if a consonant precedes y.
but that rule doesn't stand for proper n.
hanged vs. hung
hanged is used when talking about people being hanged (killed by hanging). in other cases, you use hung.