Any words, or word endings, in the following table will not be affected by the singular method. This is either because the resulting word is already singular, or because there is no inflection available. Word endings are denoted by the prefix *:

Amoyese	Borghese	Congoese	Faroese	Foochowese
Genevese	Genoese	Gilbertese	Hottentotese	Kiplingese
Kongoese	Lucchese	Maltese	Nankingese	Niasese
Pekingese	Piedmontese	Pistoiese	Portuguese	Sarawakese
Shavese	Vermontese	Wenchowese	Yengeese	*deer
*fish	*lese	*measles	*media	*mese
*nese	*ois	*pox	*rese	*sheep
*ss	bison	bream	breeches	britches
buffalo	cantus	carp	chassis	clippers
cod	coitus	contretemps	corps	debris
diabetes	djinn	eland	elk	equipment
flounder	gallows	graffiti	headquarters	herpes
hijinks	information	innings	jackanapes	mackerel
mews	moose	mumps	news	nexus
pincers	pliers	proceedings	rabies	rhinoceros
rice	salmon	scissors	sea bass	sea-bass
series	shears	siemens	species	staff
swine	testes	trousers	trout	tuna
whiting	wildebeest

In addition to words that are not inflected, the method also handles some special cases. These are generally words that do not have a clear pragmatic method of handling the inflection of converting the word to its singular equivalent:

Plural Form	Singular Form
atlases	atlas
beefs	beef
brothers	brother
cafes	cafe
children	child
cookies	cookie
corpuses	corpus
cows	cow
criteria	criterion
curves	curve
foes	foe
ganglions	ganglion
genies	genie
genera	genus
graffiti	graffito
hoofs	hoof
humans	human
loaves	loaf
men	man
monies	money
mongooses	mongoose
moves	move
mythoi	mythos
niches	niche
numina	numen
occiputs	occiput
octopuses	octopus
opuses	opus
oxen	ox
penises	penis
people	person
sexes	sex
soliloquies	soliloquy
testes	testis
trilbys	trilby
turfs	turf
waves	wave

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