A plurale tantum (plural: pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant, though it may still refer to one or many of the objects it names. Many languages have pluralia tantum, such as the English words "scissors" and "pants", or the Swedish word inälvor "intestines". Look up plural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In linguistics, grammatical number is a morphological category characterized by the expression of quantity through inflection or agreement. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The term for a noun which appears only in the lonely form is singulare tantum (plural: singularia tantum), for example the English words "dust" and "wealth". Singulare tantum is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as: "Gram. A word having only a singular form; esp. a non-count noun."^[1] In the English language, such words are almost always uncountable nouns. It has been suggested that Count noun be merged into this article or section. ...

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• Wiktionary list of English pluralia tantum.
• English plural

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