eli5 why do we use “s” at the end of words with 0 quantity?

Question

0 elephants

1 elephant

2 elephants

100 elephants

I understand the “s” for quantities larger than 1 because it’s plural (more than 1) — but why for 0, which is less than 1? Why does it just “feel more comfortable” (including for me)? Is there a logical reason behind it?

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Answer 1

Turn it around. It’s not that we use the plural form for everything except one, it’s that we only use the singular for one.

Compare it to Japanese which doesn’t have a singular form – they would say one elephants, five elephants, one hundred elephants.