The Miss Flamboroughs were reckoned the best dancers in the parish.—Goldsmith.
The Misses Nettengall's young ladies come to the Cathedral too.—Dickens.
The Messrs. Harper have done the more than generous thing by Mr. Du Maurier.—The Critic.
53. A number of foreign words have been adopted into English without change of form. These are said to be domesticated, and retain their foreign plurals.
Others have been adopted, and by long use have altered their power so as to conform to English words. They are then said to be naturalized, or Anglicized, or Englished.
Domesticated words.
The domesticated words may retain the original plural. Some of them have a secondary English plural in -s or -es.
Exercise.
Find in the dictionary the plurals of these words:—
I. FROM THE LATIN.