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English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plurals are formed from the corresponding singular forms, as well as various issues concerning the usage of singulars and plurals in English. For plurals of pronouns, see English personal pronouns.
Loaves prepared for Artoklasia. On feast days towards the end of vespers there is a blessing of loaves, [ n 6 ] wheat, wine, and oil, whereafter the priest breaks one of the loaves from which action the rite receives its name: Artoklasia , "breaking of bread".
A loaf (pl.: loaves) is a (usually) rounded or oblong quantity of food, typically and originally of bread. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is common to bake bread in a rectangular bread pan or loaf pan because some kinds of bread dough tend to collapse and spread out during the cooking process if not constrained; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the shape of less viscous doughs can ...
"Azymes" (plural of azyme) is an archaic English word for the Jewish matzah, derived from the Ancient Greek word ἄζυμος (ἄρτος) ázymos (ártos), "unleavened (bread)", for unfermented bread in Biblical times; [2] the more accepted term in modern English is simply unleavened bread or matzah, but cognates of the Greek term are still used in many Romance languages (Spanish pan ácimo ...
Fig-cakes have historically been used as food in ancient times. The Hebrew Bible mentions the food dveláh (Hebrew: דבילה) in several places: . Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves [of bread], and two bottles of wine... and an hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs (דבלים ), etc. (1 Samuel 25:18) [6]
The nursery rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down has a version which includes the line "Build it up with penny loaves". [2] The term appears in the first complete published version of the "To Market, To Market" rhyme in 1805 as "To market, to market, to buy a penny bun, Home again, home again, market is done" in Songs for the Nursery. [3]
The preterite or perfect is formed on base 2 with no suffix in the singular for classes 2, 3, and 4, and the suffix -c for class 1 [note 5]; the plural is formed on base 2 with the suffix -queh for all classes, without the -c suffix in class 1. It is similar in meaning to the English simple past or present perfect.
[9] The Christian Congregation , a Pentecostal denomination, uses leavened loaves of bread. Among those who use the unleavened hosts, there is a great deal of variation: some are square or triangular rather than round, and may even be made out of whole wheat flour .