How many English words that end with 'S' are not plural?
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Kim Siever
ANSWERS: 4
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Assuming modern English, more than I could count. About every standard present tense verb has a form (thinks, jumps, has...), some obviously foreign-rooted words (e.g. debris, chablis) and lots of other random words (bus, fuss, toss, loss, press...)
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As well as present tense verbs, don't forget about words that end in ous. i.e. Hazerdous, Superflouous.
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The longest, with nineteen letters, is straightforwardness.
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And then there are all the Latin loan words that end in US (alumnus, octopus, hippopotamus, omnibus, posthumous, status, calculus, radius, phallus, humerus, alias (spelled alius in Latin), nimbus, etc.) and the Greek ones that end in AS, IS, and OS (atlas, pancreas, axis, thesis, parenthesis, stasis, eros, telos, etc.). Most of these, however, show up in the Sciences, Medicine, Math, and Philsophy/Theology. And then there's Physics, Economics, Lynguistics, Hemeneutics, Apologetics, Systematics, Statics, Dynamics, Harmonics, Ethics, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Forensics, Statistics and Mathmatics which are all singular when referring to the school subject/academic discipline.
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