How many relatively common singular nouns can you think of that, when you remove an "s", become a relatively common plural noun?
For example: PRINCESS (singular) becomes PRINCES (plural).
I know of at least four more, one of which only has one "s" to begin with.
(In reply to
spoiler by Claire)
BRASS BRAS and CARESS CARES are two of the pairs of words I found, as well.
I point out that the stipulation posed by the puzzler is that each word of the pair must both be nouns (though the spellings may also represent other grammatical forms: verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, etc.). Therefore, the word pairs with the singular words NEEDLESS, POSSESS and ASSESS must be discounted as they fail in this regard.
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Posted by Dej Mar
on 2009-03-24 11:06:26 |
re: spoiler
