Talk:crescendoes

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third person sing. verb: sometimes crescendoes or only crescendos? (Google had some with the es but about 10 times as many with just s). RJFJR 17:16, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

I haven't checked Google (or elsewhere), but the stats you cite seem to answer your question: Both.—msh210℠ 17:56, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Are you sure that the hits you saw were for the third-person singular present active indicative form of the verb, and not for the plural of the noun? Suffixing -es to <o>-terminal words is pretty common in English (e.g., mottoes, potatoes), but that’s not the case for the third-person singular forms, which are almost without exception formed by the suffixation of -s (the exceptions are a few irregular verbs, like be and wit, and archaic forms which use -(e)th). As a verb form, *crescendoes would either be the third-person singular form of a verb *(deprecated template usage) crescendoe or a non-standard third-person singular form of crescendo. (IMO, unless one uses the superior crescendi, (deprecated template usage) crescendoes makes more sense than crescendos as the plural of (deprecated template usage) crescendo because of its pronunciation, which ends in /—əʊz/ rather than /—ɒs/; the conflation of the two pronunciations of <os>-terminal words (the aforementioned /—ɒs/ — usually singular — and /—əʊz/, usually plural) is what leads to words like *(deprecated template usage) kudo, erroneously back-formed from the properly singular kudos — correctly pronounced /ˈkjuːdɒs/ but often mispronounced /ˈkuːdəʊz/.) † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 20:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Cited at Citations:crescendo. —Ruakh_TALK 18:04, 5 December 2009 (UTC)