Interesting examples of plural forms! I came across the word "monies" (as the plural form of "money") in a contract and I found it hard to identify the word at first. Then I looked it up in the dictionary and this is what I got:

drawing account

Accounting: Name of the account (in the account books of a sole-proprietorship or partnership firm) which records all monies taken out of the business by the owner or partners.

equity method

Method of accounting used by a parent firm for monies invested in the subsidiaries. The parent firm records the investment in its balance sheet at a valuation that takes into account the profits and losses of the subsidiaries since their acquisition. Also called equity accounting. See also cost method.

Marisa

http://www.englishforums.com/English/MoneyMoniesFoodFoods/ccvgj/post.htm 

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=286505 

Hi Jacek!

Thanks a lot!!! Very useful information!

Marisa

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/2005/02/fish_or_fishes.html

Canadian usage permits "beer" as a plural; American usage, as far as I know, does not.

Linguists call the line between two such usages an "isogloss" (literally, "same language"). Just as an isobar on a weather map describes a region of equal air pressure, an isogloss describes a region where most people follow a particular usage or pronunciation. In the "beer" example, the isogloss runs right along the US-Canadian boundary.

Similarly, isoglosses separate British "lorry" and North American "truck," and Californian "fender bender" and Tennessee "car smash" ....

I suspect isoglosses also exist between social classes and generations. My generation uses "said" for "said." My students use "like":

"So Crawford is like, 'We have a quiz on Monday,' and I'm like, 'Omigod, I can't be there!"

In today's Wall Street Journal, the designer/editor team decided to represent "black swan" as a dictionary entry, pronunciation and all, apparently without consulting an actual dictionary. This is the pitiful result:
 

Fuhnetiks at the Wawl Street Jurnl

Impressive. I count six distinct errors (if we assume they’re trying to use IPA). In one word. Very impressive.

Full text of "Literary frivolities, francies, follies, and frolics" mentions "an unfortunate genius who had discovered that there were 33,535 ways of spelling the word 'scissors'!"

No examples were provided so I kept digging and here is

Spelling Society : 480 ways to spell 'scissors'.

You may want to test your own inventiveness first before looking up that list!

WOW! I could think of maybe 50 ways to spell 'scissors', so the list is amazingly inventive. 

Nightie night!