‘although most of our nouns and adjectives have fallen off the inflections truck.’
a number of nominal inflections are retained in the plural, primarily in nouns of Anglo-Saxon origin, and in the genitive case, in which the typical ending of “es” in the A-S masculine and neuter is morphed into ‘s in modern English...the verbal system retains conjugation in the past participal of ‘strong’ verbs, as opposed to the modern weak ending of ‘ed’...I’m sure there are other examples, but I’m too lazy to look for them...
Yeah, English is a mess.