Crazy Word Changes

Strange tenses and plurals rule this trivia game all about the modality of the English language.

15 questions · Published April 21, 2025

Trivia questions (5 of 15)

Multiple Choice
1. Which of these words is the correct plural form of "goose"?
Goose becomes geese thanks to Old English rules of pluralization where o's became e's, as it was once gōs to gés, which became the present day nouns.
Multiple Choice
2. What is the plural form of the word "die," as in multiple multi-sided game pieces?
Interestingly, the word dice takes its plural from from the French word des, where it is common to add an s for pluralization, but in translation added a "c."
Multiple Choice
3. Like its tentacles, the word "octopus" has many different acceptable pluralizations. Which of these is NOT one of them?
As of now it is acceptable to use octopuses, octopi, or octopodes, which are English, Latin, and Greek respectively, but there is such things as octopocks.
Multiple Choice
4. What does it mean if a product or person is "sought after"?
If something is sought after, it means it is hard to find as people are attempting to seek it out, i.e. "the Tickle Me Elmo was a sought after toy in the 1990s."
Multiple Choice
5. What one-letter ending modifier can be added to "learn" instead of the two-letter modifier "ed" to also make it past tense?
Instead of "learned" it is also acceptable to change the "ed" to "t" as in, "he learnt his lesson," a leftover from the days of Anglo-Saxon construction in the English language.

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