• UmeU@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    It’s just Ant… you don’t have to put the ‘s’, ant is already plural

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        Maybe in the original British English it’s not, but in American English, ant is plural

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          2 年前

          No it isn’t. Ants is the plural for a single ant in the English language flat out. In no region does the word ‘ant’ fall under the Singular Plural rules.

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      Unless it’s the human aunt. Like if your mother and father both had a sister named “Sarah” (or if one set of grandparents were very lazy with their naming and your father or mother had two sisters named “Sarah”), you would refer to them collectively as Aunts Sarah.

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        I actually had a pet moose named Sarah, but have never had a pet ant named Sarah so I can’t confirm this.