Compound Noun Plural Forms, Ranked

Jared Keller
How to Disappear Completely
1 min readOct 5, 2016

Excluding some Latin or archaic garbage from The Week’s useful list.

Senators/congressman/governors elect

Bodies politic

Notaries public

Heirs apparent

Culs-de-sac

Agents provocateurs

Battles royale

Attorneys general

Femmes fatale

Films noir

Poets laureate

Michelobs Ultra

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Jared Keller
How to Disappear Completely

Deputy editor at Task & Purpose. Other words for Aeon, The Atlantic, LARB, Pacific Standard, TNR, Slate, Smithsonian, the Village Voice, and elsewhere