why is the plural of play, plays and not plaies?

Answer 1

Generally the rule is:

When a word ends in a consonant followed by the letter “y,” you will change the “y” to “i” before adding an ending. Do not change the “y” to “i” when you add the ending “ing.”

The word "play" has a vowel before the y so you don't change the y to i. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Plural Play

Answer 3

It's the rule of plurals. If you have a vowel before the ending "y", then the y remains a y. If you have a consonant before the final y, it changes to ie.
(Of course, there are exceptions, as in everything, but it is the general rule for singular nouns ending in y.)
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Answer 4

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why is the plural of play, plays and not plaies?

Answer 5

Because it is the generally accepted english plural term for play and we can't do anything to change it.

Wait, plaies? What dialect is that?

Answer 6

plays

Answer 7

Days isn't daeies.. Fray isn't fraies..

This plural is not a trick. It's just as normal as the other -ay words.

Answer 8

Actually. the Hamburger was named the hamburger, because the person who invented it, lived in a town that had people from HAMBURG, germany. :) just some interesting facts!

Answer 9

because the plural for sheep is sheep

language is full of exeptions

Answer 10

way/ways
day/days
stray/strays
toy/toys
lay/lays
pay/pays
bay/bays

As you can see, the rule that you add an 's' if there is a vowel before the 'y' is pretty consistent.