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My shorts ore dirty.

The scissors are on the table. To

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have two plurals: one from the foreign language and the other formed according to the rules for plural formation in English. The foreign plural is usually kept for scientific or specialized use.
an index some indexes/indices
so m e fo r m u I a s /fo r m u I a e

talk about one of these items we can use the expression

John bought a Pair ofieans.

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To talk about more than one we talk about however many pairs o[..

Mortina bougftfive Pairs of tights-

When they are used as ordinary numbers, words such as dozen and
million have no pluralform.
nine million

stars

two dozen glasses

When they are used to mean a large number, they do have a plural form, which can be used as a partitive.
There are millions of pebbles
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onthe beach.

saw dozens of children in the playground.

Foreign plurals
Nouns that have come into English from foreign languages can:

keep the pluralform of the language they come from an a

axis crisis

two axes

two crises

have plurals formed according to the rules for plural in English.

othesourus

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severalthesauruses

(instead ofthesauri)