Make Your Editor Cry: Dragonfly (Awkward Plural)
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front)
The plural of dragonfly is dragonflies.
dragonfly: any of a suborder (Anisoptera) of odonate insects that are larger and stouter than damselflies, hold the wings horizontal in repose, and have rectal gills during the naiad stage
The singular of dragonfly is dragonfly. The plural of dragonfly is dragonflies. The spelling dragonflys is not a thing, or a word. The noun dragonfly conforms to the standard rules for forming the plurals of nouns in English.
There is about 3000 species of dragonflies.
Dragonflies are found on every continent except Antarctica.
Gregg Bridgeman is the Editor-in-Chief at Olivia Kimbrell Press. He is husband to best-selling Christian author Hallee Bridgeman and parent to three. He continues to proudly serve in the US Armed Forces and has done so in either an active or reserve capacity for more than twenty years as an airborne and air assault qualified paratrooper, earning a Bronze Star for his service. Most importantly, he was ordained in October of 2001 after surrendering his life to Christ decades earlier.
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