Comment by swiftcoder
4 days ago
I think all the others that do this are loanwords from French? We keep the silent s at the end in the singular, and make it audible in the plural - faux pas, corps, précis, etc.
There are a bunch of other heteronyms, but I can't think of others that differ specifically in the plural
Excellent! And even stranger. In French, the singular and plural forms have the same pronunciation! Damned Rosbif can't do ANYTHING right. lol.
The Artificial General Intelligence (Claude) gives a few more examples (but only after having been prompted with your examples):
- Rendezvous, hors d'eouvre, patois, chamois, bourgeois, glacis, fracas (dialect dependent), debris (rare), pince nez (dialect dependent).