The following sentence, from my grammar textbook, confused me:
What's the odds? (What does it matter?)
I looked up odds in some dictionaries. All say that odds is a plural noun. So, there are two questions:
1) Why can is be used after a plural noun?
2) Is there any singular form of odds? What exactly is an odd?
Best Answer
I think you found a typo in your book! It should read: "What're (What are) the odds?"
Here are some other examples of plural nouns in English that don't have a singular equivalent but sometimes get conjugated as singular:
Even though the singular conjugation is not correct it still shows up, especially in conversation. "Media" is a great example of this, since it is actually a plural of "medium" but almost never is used as a plural.