804: English Pluralization: Kid, Child and Man (-en Day 5) Feb 19, 2017

Frustratingly, the plural of 'kid' is 'kids', while the plural of 'child' is 'children', and the plural of 'man' is 'men' which you can see more about here: 'man' and remnants of English gender. The '-en' suffix is used to form the plural of certain nouns such as 'children', and 'oxen', but even in Old English when this was more prevalent, there were other ways that people created plural forms, such as changing the vowel used in some strong nouns like 'man', orFunctions of S by using an '-as' suffix which eventually turned into the modern, '-s' suffix (more on that below). The '-en' pluralizing suffix came about in Middle English from an earlier version, '-an'.

Functions of S