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Does any other plural work this way? Or is this just another stupid ass English variation?
Person/People does. The word "peoples" can be used as multiple different groups of people.
For instance you can say to "the peoples of Europe" to refer to Germans, French, Italian, etc.
interesting. so it's like a plural or a plural. so I can say the monkeyses of the Amazon.
No because plural of the same type of monkey would still be monkeys.
But people is a non-countable word, like water. You don't have one people, two people.
When talking about peoples of [place] it's a countable word.
Fish is countable.
People are countable. That's the whole point of a census. Water can come in any amount, such as 3.5 litres. People come in discrete numbers. You can't have .5 of a person.
I think the thing confusing you is that it's one of those weird English words where the singular and plural word are different. Person/people vs car/cars.
You can still say "waters" though. For example: "The waters of Amsterdam" would collectively refer to all bodies of water in Amsterdam. Another example I came across online was "Don't forget your waters" which referred to multiple bottles of water.
Monies
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/monies
Hmmm. I'm just going to keep using this to refer to all my I'll gotten gains.
Uncountable nouns (i.e.,things you usually measure by volume or weight) behave this way as well.
e.g., salt/salts to mean any measure of salt vs different types of salts. Beer/beers to mean any amount of liquid beer vs different beer styles or products.