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Who writes mangoes instead of simply mangos?

I never knew some people write it differently

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mangoes where he pleases

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I accept “mangoes” because of the English rule that nouns that end in a consonant followed by a vowel should be padded with another vowel (“e”) before the “-s”. Another example I can think of off the top of my head is “heroes”, not “heros”.

However, I also accept “mangos” because it feels right. Wiktionary says “mango” is Portuguese, and I don’t know Portuguese, but at least in Spanish you don’t pluralize with “-es”, just “-s”.

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Mango doesn’t exist in Portuguese. It’s written manga, a feminine gendered word, Portuguese being a gendered language.

Plural mangas. Doesn’t really help, but there’s your linguistic TIL.

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My bad. Yeah, it’s interesting that we don’t seem to know why English calls it “mango” when every other language calls it “manga” or something else ending with the “-a”.

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Eat them because mangoes are delicious.

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Or make mangonadas

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When life gives you mangos, don’t make mangonade. Make life take the mangos back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn mangos, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager!

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I’ll have my engineers invent a combustible mango to burn your house down! With the mangoes!

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Slice em up, dry em over a fan, dried mango slices are the beeeest snaaaack

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Is there a good way to do this without mangoes? Or a fan?

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You can imagine having the mangoes very vividly, it will activate the same part of your brain that would be activated as if you had the mangoes

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it will activate the same part of your greeting that would be

The same part of my what?

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