One person, two people. One `person`, two `person`s
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You ever notice how computer verbs become strangely more regular than plain English ones? Consider the program `cat`, and its verbed form, "to `cat`". Past tense: "I `cat`ed". Present continuous tense: "I am `cat`ing". Or do you write "`cat`ting"? But certainly not "`catt`ing"
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An array of `account` objects should be called `accounts`. An array of arrays of `account` objects should be called `accountses`. But an array of arrays of `person` objects should be called `peoples`, not `personses`. I mean, let's not go too crazy
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I think most verbing do not use irregular conjugation cause those tend to be artifacts of old languages (mostly germanic). Also it's easier to understand if the new verb is regular. btw, in Spanish all new verbs adopt the first conjugation (-ar), never the other two (-er, -ir)
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Not sure what's the deal with Spanish. I don't think the second and third conjugation are artifacts of other languages.
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