'he dies with death'  surely !

Mongeese sounds more likely but my Psion Scrabble doesn't accept this and
insists that it is Mongooses.

In my search for plurals without a singular I have so far only come up with
"Hustings" - anyone got any others.

"Duncan Gray" <dun### [at] eclipsecouk> wrote in message
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> David Fontaine wrote:
> > Oh, and one other thing: the plural of die is dice. There is no such
thing
> > as dices or a dice. Sheesh! ;)
>
> ' he dices with death '
> ' the machine dices meat '
>
> But I'm being flippant, in this context you are of course quite correct.
> Singular is Die, the plural is Dice.... How about many small groups of
dice
> ?
> ...
>
> What's the plural of Mongoose ?
>
> Mongooses?
> Mongi?
> My vote goes for Polygeese.
>
> --
> Duncan Gray
> (warning: may contain traces of nut)
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