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Originally Posted by MickeyC
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Also, after 1066 and all that, a battle royal waged between the cities and the countryside in Britian over how to form the plural. Cities wanted to stick with the German method, i.e., adding the letters en to the word. Example: One house, two housen. The countryside wanted to use the French way by adding the letter s. Ironically, the countryside won and we use the letter s. But there are at least four words in the English language that we still form the plural by adding en.
You know all four of them. Three you use everyday.
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The obvious ones are "oxen", "children" and "brethren"; what would you consider to be the fourth?