Timeline for Plural of belief: beliefs or believes?
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| Dec 17, 2016 at 17:46 | comment | added | user230 | @Glorfindel It's not really an exception. There are three broad classes of /f/-final nouns, those with /v/-only plurals (calf, knife, leaf, life), those with /f/-only plurals (belief, chief, cliff, photograph), and those with both types of plural in use (dwarf, half, scarf, wharf). Nouns sometimes move from one category to another (as with dwarf, thanks to Tolkien). Because there are so many nouns in the latter two categories, we can't say that beliefs is an exception to a general rule. See The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p.1587. | |
| S Dec 17, 2016 at 15:51 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Dec 17, 2016 at 15:45 | comment | added | Glorfindel♦ | It doesn't matter what you think; belief is an exception to this rule. English is full of exceptions, unfortunately. | |
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| Dec 17, 2016 at 15:36 | history | answered | Mahdi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |