Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

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June 14, 2009

Total number of comments

3

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hanged vs. hung

  • October 14, 2009, 3:03pm

hanged is used when talking about people being hanged (killed by hanging). in other cases, you use hung.

Plural of “insurance”?

  • June 14, 2009, 5:29pm

insurance is noncountable n. therefore it cannot be used in plural f

as far as I'm familiar with the proper nouns, you don't make any inflectional changes when making plural form.
with common nouns, as you know, y changes into ie if a consonant precedes y.
but that rule doesn't stand for proper n.