Plural Quiz...

Here's a following link to test your English plurals. This shows the complexity of the English language due to it many exceptions! Even drive some native speakers bonkers!

http://www.quizfreak.com/can-you-identify-the-plural-of-these-14-tough-words/index1.html

For your information only and not meant to be some sort of bragging, I finished this quiz in 14 seconds, assuming it takes one second to choose and click to the next word without any pause. This is due to old fashion hard work - rote memorization and daily usage from various fields of discipline.

If you cannot get to this link, let me know and I will post the words in the correction box. Have Fun and learn something new today :)

As per Brook's request, the answers to the quiz...

Singular          Plural

1.  Crisis           Crisis*          

2.  Criterion       Criteria       From Greek

3.  Datum          Data          From Latin

4.  Deer             Deer          Same

5.  Emphasis      Emphasis*    Same

6.  Knife             Knives 

7.  Oasis            Oases         Egyptian -> Greek -> Late Latin

8.  Ox                Oxen

9.  Nucleus         Nuclei         From Latin

10. Roof             Roofs

11. Moose           Moose        Same, from Eastern Algonquian

12. Larva            Larvae        From Latin

13. Phenomenon Phenomena From Greek

14. Radius          Radii           From Latin

* My English professor from the Classics say that there should be no plural for these words.  You can only emphasize on only one thing, if everything is emphasized, then the emphasis of each item is therefore cancelled with each other.  Same logic applied to "favorite" which means the "best".  There is only "perfect " but not "more perfect".  However, the dictionaries will list the plural of "emphasis" as  "emphases" and  "crisis" as "crises".  Also there is debate for "fish" vs "fishes", "fruit" vs "fruits".