#31. Irregular Plural Nouns
Thursday
Basis-bases, focus-foci, cactus-cacti, datum-data, wife-wives, half-halves, goose-geese, foot-feet, tooth-teeth, woman-women, die-dice, person-people, child-children, mouse-mice, ox-oxen, criterion-criteria
17 words
bases
/siz/
basis
/sɪs/
cactus-cacti
/ˈkæktəs - ˈkæktaɪ/
child-children
/tʃaɪld - ˈtʃɪldrən/
criterion-criteria
/kraɪˈtɪriən - kraɪˈtɪriə/
datum-data
/ˈdeɪtəm - ˈdeɪtə/
die-dice
/daɪ - daɪs/
focus-foci
/faɪ/
foot-feet
/fʊt - fiːt/
goose-geese
/ɡuːs - ɡiːs/
half-halves
/hæf - hævz/
mouse-mice
/maʊs - maɪs/
ox-oxen
/ɑːks - ˈɑːksən/
person-people
/ˈpɝːsən - ˈpiːpəl/
tooth-teeth
/tuːθ - tiːθ/
wife-wives
/waɪf - waɪvz/
woman-women
/ˈwʊmən - ˈwɪmɪn/
Unchanged plurals: news/series/species/elk/deer/sheep/fish/rice/cod/moose/aircraft/antelope/cattle/salmon/walrus/homework/buffalo
14 words