Noun Variants

• Noun Inflection:

  Format:     variants=fillers

  Allowable fillers for count nouns:

  Code	Definitions	Examples
  variants=reg	Follows the regular pattern of English plural formation. Rules consider only the end of a term	flies, illnesses, books
  variants=glreg	Greco-Latin regular plurals follow one of the paradigms bellows. The base form and it's spelling variants must end with: singular plural Examples -us -i focus/foci -ma -mata trauma/traumata -a -ae larva/larvae -um -a ilium/ilia -on -a taxon/taxa -sis -ses analysis/analyses -is -ides cystis/cystides -men -mina foramen/foramina -ex -ices index/indices -x -ces matrix/matrices	focus/foci, analysis/analyses, matrix/matrices
  variants=metareg	The plural of acronyms which form their plural with an apostrophe s.	PhD, Ph.D.
  variants=irreg|arg1|arg2|	Plural form for irregular nouns	calf, stomach
  variants=sing	Fixed singular nouns, count nouns that lack a plural form	lope
  variants=plur	Fixed plural nouns, count nouns that lack a singular form	cattle, police, suds, surroundings
  variants=inv	Nouns have the same form in the singular and the plural, but remain countable.	sheep, deer, means, fish, bear, carp
  variants=group(argument)	Collective nouns	committee, family, majority, herd, board, bunch

  Allowable fillers for uncount nouns:

  Code	Definitions	Examples
  variants=uncount	The traditional terms abstract and mass, have no separate plural form	sincerity, dirt, beer, disease, truth
  variants=groupuncount	Uncount nouns and fixed singular nouns	United States, Parliament, mankind, right