# Inflection Rules For Irregular Nouns:
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# OF MICE AND MEN (and TEETH and WIVES): (1-Oct-92)
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RULE: man$|noun|singular|men$|noun|plural
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# It is not clear from the dictionaries what the plurals of the non-rodential
# terms:  "peritoneal mouse", "pleural mouse" and "joint mouse" is.  I assume
# that analogy is strong enough to support "mice" plurals for these.
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RULE: mouse$|noun|singular|mice$|noun|plural
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# tooth teeth
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RULE: tooth$|noun|singular|teeth$|noun|plural
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# f(e) -> ves  (1-Oct-92) (ACB)
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RULE: fe$|noun|singular|ves$|noun|plural
EXCEPTION: rife|rives;
EXCEPTION: safe|saves;
EXCEPTION: strife|strives;
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# "belief" and "believes" are of course morphologically related  by an
# "f|noun|ve|verb" derivational rule too unproductive  to make it into
# dm.rul.
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RULE: f$|noun|singular|ves$|noun|plural
EXCEPTION: belief|believes;
EXCEPTION: dif|dives;
EXCEPTION: disbelief|disbelieves;
EXCEPTION: grief|grieves;
EXCEPTION: motif|motives;
EXCEPTION: pelf|pelves;
EXCEPTION: relief|relieves;
EXCEPTION: serf|serves;