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Plural Rule: um Becomes a

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A singular ending in u m forms its plural by changing the u m to a.

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Ovum becomes ova; bacterium becomes bacteria; serum becomes sera.

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Bacteria is already plural. One organism is a bacterium, a distinction charts still get wrong.