Editing English plurals (section)

== Meaning ==
Although the everyday meaning of ''plural'' is "more than one", the grammatical term has a slightly different technical meaning. In the English system of grammatical number, singular means "one (or minus one)", and plural means "not singular". In other words, plural means not just "more than one" but also "less than one (except minus one)". This less-than aspect can be seen in cases like ''the temperature is zero degrees'' (not *''zero degree''{{efn|This article uses [[Asterisk#Ungrammaticality|asterisks]] to indicate ungrammatical examples.}}) and ''0.5 children per woman'' (not *''0.5 child per woman'').