Question #113393. Asked by 29CoveRoad.
Last updated Dec 13 2016.
Suds’s origins are still not absolutely certain. But the American Heritage Dictionary and other contemporary sources agree that a likely source is “Dutch zudse, marsh, from Middle Dutch sudse.” That would mean that suds began life as a singular, and though it could, like kudos, be reinterpreted as plural and sprout a new singular form, it hasn’t done so yet.
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