Bread, coffee, copper, flour, gold, goodness, grammar (science, not a book), grass, hay, honesty, iron, lead, marble, meekness, milk, molasses, music, peace, physiology, pride, tin, water.
The following plural forms are commonly used in the singular.
Acoustics, ethics, mathematics, politics (and other names of sciences in ics), amends, measles, news.
The following words are always plural.
(Such words are generally names of things double or multiform in their character.)
+Direction+.—Study the following list:—
Aborigines, annals, ashes, assets, clothes, fireworks, hysterics, literati, mumps, nippers, oats, pincers, rickets, scissors, shears, snuffers, suds, thanks, tongs, tidings, trousers, victuals, vitals.
The following were originally singular forms, but they are now treated as plural.
Alms (Anglo-Saxon aelmaesse), eaves (A. S. efese), riches (Norman
French richesse).
The following have no singular corresponding in meaning.