On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>  Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What is the plural of octopus?
>
> It's a trick question.  Octopus is already plural.  Monopus is singular.

People is already plural, too, but you can talk about all the peoples
of the world. Also, I can use "people" as the subject and "is" as the
verb, just to completely destroy any chance of a simple grammar parser
being able to cope with English.

ChrisA
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