Invisible wrote:
> All I was trying to figure out is why there's no such word as "sheeps".
> Several other words have this property, but I have no idea what it's
> called.
If the plural of mouse is mice and louse is lice, shouldn't the plural
of house be hice?
> Also: "transparent" is an adjective. But what the hell is
> "transparency"? [Aside from also happening to be a noun. God English is
> complicated!]
The formation of 'transparency' from 'transparent' is straightforward,
as the sound 'ts' equates to soft 'c'. See also: elegant/elegance.
(don't ask me where the effectively added s comes from)
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Tim Cook
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