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A person who engages in theft is known as a thief (pl. thieves). [ 7 ] Theft is the name of a statutory offence in California, Canada, England and Wales , Hong Kong, [ 8 ] Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, [ 9 ] and the Australian states of South Australia [ 10 ] and Victoria .
The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
Old English had a single third-person pronoun hē, which had both singular and plural forms, and they wasn't among them. In or about the start of the 13th century, they was imported from a Scandinavian source (Old Norse þeir, Old Danish, Old Swedish þer, þair), in which it was a masculine plural demonstrative pronoun.
Examples are stewardi (supposed plural of stewardess) and Elvi (as a plural for Elvis imitators). The Toyota corporation has determined that their Prius model should have the plural form Prii, even though the Latin word prius has a plural priora, the Lada Priora having prior claim to that name—though the common plural is "Priuses".
The quantity of apples is marked on the noun—"apple" singular number (one item) vs. "apples" plural number (more than one item)—on the demonstrative, that/those, and on the verb, is/are. In the second sentence, all this information is redundant, since quantity is already indicated by the numeral two.
and the thief did not return the stolen item to the person he stole it from; and the thief did not claim it; and the thief was not owed a debt by the person he stole from equal to the value of what he stole; and the person stolen from is present [in court] and he made a claim for the stolen property; and requested that amputation occur
Swag is not an acronym for "stuff we all get," "secretly we are gay," or anything else. It comes from early-19th-century slang for a thief's booty or loot. [38] [39] Tip is not derived from the phrase "to insure promptness" (prompt service). [40] The word originated in the 17th century and is of uncertain origin. [41] Wog and wop: see under ...
The only exception to this prohibition against multiple non-reflexive referential object prefixes is the case where a non-third person object and a third person plural object are both indexed, with the third person plural prefix taking the shape -im-. There is no restriction against the co-ocurrence of a referential and non-referential prefix ...