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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