{"id":255,"date":"2007-07-03T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/255"},"modified":"2008-02-14T04:08:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T09:08:22","slug":"conundrum-plurality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/255","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum: Plurality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/250>last Thursday Morning Riddle<\/a> rhymed four words that each ended with a different letter.  It reminded me of <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/135>an earlier Conundrum<\/a> that asked you to come up with rhymes for &#8220;zoo&#8221; without duplicating ending letters.<\/p>\n<p>So, according to <a href=http:\/\/plateaupress.com.au\/wfw\/singular.htm target=_blank>this guy<\/a>, you can find 26 plurals, each of which ends in a different letter of the alphabet.  I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true or not, but let&#8217;s see what we can come up with.<\/p>\n<p>He says you don&#8217;t need to use words which are both the singular and plural, fish and sheep for example, but I won&#8217;t make that restriction.  We should probably stick to English, or words commonly used in English.  I&#8217;ll also put no restrictions on how many responses each reader may post.<\/p>\n<p>So from that post we already have H (fish), P (sheep), N (oxen), and I don&#8217;t think we need to worry about S.  So that leaves 22 letters.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll kick it off by starting at the beginning with A: data, media, criteria, etc.<\/p>\n<p>21 to go.  Any thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Responses provided by Kenneth W. Davis (3), Pseudo-Pedantius (5), and DeLisa (3), and me (5).  5 letters remain.<\/p>\n<p><!--743f02914d27caa67867d81a7cb81054-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--bd80d2060d8855077202bcf90a7d777a--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;zoo&#8221; without duplicating ending letters. So, according to this guy, you can find 26 plurals, each of which ends in a different letter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conundrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}