Make Your Editor Cry: Hovercraft (Awkward Plural)
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front)
The plural of hovercraft is hovercraft.
hovercraft: a vehicle that is supported above the surface of land or water by a cushion of air produced by downwardly directed fans.
The singular of hovercraft is hovercraft. The plural of hovercraft is also hovercraft. The word “hovercrafts” is not a thing, or a word.
Examples:
Nothing can stop an attack by a military hovercraft except another hovercraft.
It's unbelievable what one fleet of twelve hovercraft did to tip the balance.
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.