That's weird, because searching "guerrillas" (an unambiguously nominal form of the word) in the Corpus of Contemporary English (COCA) gives me over two thousand

That's weird, because searching "guerrillas" (an unambiguously nominal form of the word) in the Corpus of Contemporary English (COCA) gives me over two thousand hits! http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ And the Oxford dictionary defines "guerrilla" as a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces and gives the IPA pronunciation as /gəˈrIlə/ AKA "gorilla". It's almost like language evolves, and borrowed words don't always retain their pronunciations... no, it couldn't be...