Why do some words that end with an o have es for pluralizing eg tomoatoes and some words do not have es when pluralizing words ending in o eg photos solos?

Anonymous

∙ 17y ago

Updated: 8/16/2019

And a few words, like hobo, can take either form. Potatoes and tomatoes probably became -es words long ago by analogy with the word toes. Words like photos and pros are abbreviations, and words like solos and studios and folios are foreign.

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∙ 17y ago

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