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Sometimes a characters will display their lacks of eloquences (or lack of familiarity with the English languages) by randomly pluralising words that frankly don't needs pluralising (including wordses that are alreadys pluralses). This tends to go with improper verb conjugation too, sometimes completely nonsensically. eg, instead of "I am a troper", expect to see "I are a tropers" or "I ams a tropers".
A Subs Tropes of You No Take Candles. Compares Confusings Multiples Negativeses. Not to be confused with loanwordses that have several possible pluralses such that one does not know which one is right (Latin-ish words, etc.).
Exampleses:
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Animes and Mangas
- Momoko from Saki is subtitled as adding random plurals to her words. Though in this case it's not so much a habit of unnecessary pluralysis as it a Verbal Tic where she ends words with "-su."
- Tsuruya tends to do this in fanworks, though her Verbal Tic is a bit more complex.
Comics Bookses
Fans Fictions
Fans Workses
- Misato says this in Evangelion ReDeath. "Rule number one: I have two breasteses. Not one. Two."
Filmses
- The infamous "Backstroke of the West" bootleg of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith gives us the subtitle "Send these troopseses only." It also gives us such words as "dreamses," "needses," "beened," "livinging," and the especially wonderful "politicseses."
- In Love Actually there's a scene where Colin Firth has learned clumsy Portuguese so he can tell his housekeeper he's in love with her and ask her to marry him. She says, "Thank you, that will be nice," and then when he remarks that she learned English too, she says, "Just in cases."
Literatures
- Lord of the Rings Gollum and Smeagols does this all the times, yes, filthy hobbitses, yes they doessssss...
- Played with in the Rifftrax version of Return of the King, wherein "the plural of 'hobbitses' is 'hobbitseses '"
- In Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris chronicles his experiences learning French as an adult, which includes some of this.
Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window. "I want me some lamb chop with handles on 'em."
- Discussed and Defied in the Dresden Files novel "Death Masks". When Harry needs to refer to more than one Elvis, he explains that he will be using the faux Latin plural "Elvii" because using the correct English plural "Elvises" would make him sound like Gollum.
Lives Actions TVs
- One time on Sha Na Na, Chico was being given the Pygmalion treatment so he could ask out a higher class broad; for him the equivalent of "The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain" was to say, "Here you go," instead of "Here youse go" when passing the potatoes.
- The "Shoe Shop
 " sketch in A Bit of Fry and Laurie has: "I dislike the word 'brothel', Mr. Jowett. I prefer the word 'brothels'. Yes, this is a brothels."
- In the "Flowers for Wendy" horror-parody sketch, the narrator goes into this toward the end for no real reason: "A tale of walking home, and pavements, and forgettings of birthdays, and rememberings, and wantings to buy flowerings, and discoverings of a flower-stallings just at the right momentings."
- In one of J.D.'s daydream sequences on Scrubs, he was a Mexican migrant worker talking about "apples pie" and "apples juice."
- A Running Gag for Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak whenever a plural category comes up is to do something like "Our category is Living Thingseses."
- Kenny Mayne will do this on SportsCenter with the word 'assist', e.g. "Rose with 24 points and 9 assistises."
- "MONTY...PYTHON'S...FLYING...CIRCUSeses!"
Radioses
- Ted Sheckler, a very strange fellow voiced by Jim Norton on Opie And Anthony, frequently talks about ghosts-ts-ts-s's, breasts-ts-ts-s's, and other things.
Videos Gameses
- The Hypello in Final Fantasy X do this. You rides the shoopuff?
- In the subtitles, all the Gamorreans [pig people] in Knights of the Old Republic use this trope in their speech.
- The Pagans from the Thief series, including their deity the Trickster, talk this way. The Trickstar is a partial aversion, since he has an alter ego that demonstrates he can speak plainly, but chooses not to in his real guise.
- Jedi Outcast has the Chiss bartender on Nar Shadda talk like this, leading Kyle to comment on how you should "Never trust a bartender with bad grammar."
- Some fanworks have Marisa Kirisame's "-ze" Verbal Tic as a sort of "-s" sound at the end, so "Reimu, ze" becomes "Reimus", and so on.
- Faxanadu's "You do not have enough golds"
Webs Comicses
Westerns Animations
- Sal in Futurama does this to emphasise his lower-classness.
- Of course, it does go both ways.
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- In Metalocalypse, Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth do this alls the times to reminds yous that they're from Europes.
- According to Pinkie Pie, the plural of "pegasus" is "pegaseseseses".
- In older episodes of The Simpsons, Homer usually addresses the Flanders family as the Flandereses
- Ralphs T. Guards froms Animaniacs was horribles abouts dis tropes- and so was his wife. No word was safe from being pluralized around these two...ses. Doctor Scratchansniff would doos it every now and then, but nowhere to the extent of the Guards.
Reals Lifes
- Two words: The Internets.
- This can be common when words are borrowed from other languages. For example, a single Börek (a type of pastry from the Balkans) is known in Israel as a "Bourekas", which is in fact the plural form of the original word. So the plural form of Bourekas in Hebrew is "Bourekasim" (with "im" being one of the two common plural suffixes in Hebrew).
- This often happens when Italian foods are served in English-speaking countries. In Italian, ending words with the letter "I" indicates plurality, but in other countries, it's quite common to ask for a biscotti, panini, cannoli, etc.
- On a similar note, lots of people are unaware that 'media' is the plural of 'medium', and will therefore use it improperly.
- Likewise, "alumni". Many people will say that they are an alumni of a certain school. "Alumni" is actually the masculine plural; you would be an alumnus if male, or an alumna if female. (For the record, "alumnae" is the female plural.)
- A fandom-related one: "Let me show you my Pokemons (or Pokeymans)". Non-fans or casual fans often don't realize that both the franchise name and the names of individual Pokémon don't get an S on the end; singular and plural are the same. Turned into a Memetic Mutation eventually.
- And just to make things confusing, there are edge cases when this trope is proper English—primarily when you have a cluster of things, typically proper nouns, that already end in an S. If James T. Kirk, James Bond, James "Jimmy" Neutron and James of Team Rocket were dining together, you could describe it as a table of Jameses. Likewise if you met the creator of the Walkyverse webcomics and his wife, David and Maggie, you could say that you had met the Willises.
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