Archive for July 3rd, 2007

Conundrum: Plurality

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

My last Thursday Morning Riddle rhymed four words that each ended with a different letter. It reminded me of an earlier Conundrum that asked you to come up with rhymes for “zoo” without duplicating ending letters.

So, according to this guy, you can find 26 plurals, each of which ends in a different letter of the alphabet. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but let’s see what we can come up with.

He says you don’t need to use words which are both the singular and plural, fish and sheep for example, but I won’t make that restriction. We should probably stick to English, or words commonly used in English. I’ll also put no restrictions on how many responses each reader may post.

So from that post we already have H (fish), P (sheep), N (oxen), and I don’t think we need to worry about S. So that leaves 22 letters.

I’ll kick it off by starting at the beginning with A: data, media, criteria, etc.

21 to go. Any thoughts?

UPDATE: Responses provided by Kenneth W. Davis (3), Pseudo-Pedantius (5), and DeLisa (3), and me (5). 5 letters remain.