Does this annoy you?

[Acc0untant]

Because it winds me up something terrible.

Why, oh why, is the plural of monkey not monkies? Same with donkey.

Because English is as they famously say three languages in a trench coat! It doesn't annoy me because I find those ies endings ugly and unnecessary but that's not a good reason 🤣

Because the singulars aren't monky and donky.

If there is a consonant before the y then you drop the y and add ies.

If there's a vowel before the y, you just add s.

When you pluralise a word ending “y”, you usually change the “y” to “ie” and add “s”. If you did that with monkey, the plural would be “monkeies”. Which looks awful, so you just add “s” as in a normal plural.

I still don’t understand why the word “monies” exists though.

But this doesn't work with money? Monies is a word.

I thought that but doesn't work with money!

I think 'monies' is money in different accounts, and not actually a plural of money.

This!