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woodhutt
3rd February 2021, 01:53 PM
My Mum and Dad were both dwarves.

All their lives they struggled to put food on the table...

Pete

rrich
3rd February 2021, 04:20 PM
Groan

Old Croc
3rd February 2021, 07:39 PM
At first I thought groan, but then it hit me, that's quite funny. Not very PC though.
Rgds,
Crocy.

Optimark
4th February 2021, 06:27 PM
Actually it should be, "dwarfs".

My uncle, the family named him rocker, as he always had to rock himself to get momentum to get off of a chair, bed or couch, etc. He was a dwarf and he always said dwarfs when describing his dwarf friends. Back in the late fifties, to early sixties, he was one of the dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs stage show. Which we as a family went to see when it was on in our town.

Mick.

woodhutt
5th February 2021, 01:40 AM
I stand corrected :blush2:
I should have known better as one of my pet hates is the way people refer to 'rooves' as the plural of roof (roofs). After all, whereas things might have 'grooves', we don't find Madonna encouraging us to 'Get into the groof'. The English language eh?
Actually, this could make an interesting thread on peoples pet linguistic hates.
Pete

Boringgeoff
5th February 2021, 09:41 AM
I refer to roofs as rooves. When I came here from NZ 50+ years ago, I noticed the local pronunciation of animals hooves as hoofs.
Cheers,
Geoff.

woodhutt
5th February 2021, 01:54 PM
I won't hold it against you, Geoff:U

Pete

AlexS
5th February 2021, 05:18 PM
The plural of staff is staves. It gets me when people refer to a stave.

rrich
5th February 2021, 05:54 PM
The plural of staff is staves. It gets me when people refer to a stave.

Aren't the things that are used to make a barrel called stave or staves?

woodhutt
5th February 2021, 07:47 PM
The plural of staff is staves. It gets me when people refer to a stave.

A bit like dice and die. Two or more dice, a single die.
Pete

Handyjack
5th February 2021, 08:58 PM
I have a computer mouse.
Do the shops sell mouses or mice?

woodhutt
5th February 2021, 09:12 PM
I have a computer mouse.
Do the shops sell mouses or mice?

Plural of mouse is mice, so why not? It's no worse than using a non-word such as mouses?:U

Speaking of non-words. Back in the day I found myself working alongside a young, newly graduated engineer. He was instructed to go to site and check a series of columns for vertical using the (then) relatively new laser equipment. He duly did so and in his report he wrote that he had checked the columns for 'perpendicularosity'.
Wonderful!:)
Pete

AlexS
6th February 2021, 07:30 AM
Aren't the things that are used to make a barrel called stave or staves?

One is a staff, more than one are staves.

AlexS
6th February 2021, 07:32 AM
A Scotsman once told me that it's one haggis, two haggi and three haggamusses.

I'm sure he wouldn't have lied to me.

rustynail
6th February 2021, 03:52 PM
According to the English dictionaries both are acceptable. According to the linguistic professor at Qld University both are now considered acceptable with the addition of the common pronounciation in Austalia being rooves and spelt roofs. Germanic origin were the f becomes ve to make the plural.

cava
7th February 2021, 02:25 PM
A Scotsman once told me that it's one haggis, two haggi and three haggamusses.

I'm sure he wouldn't have lied to me.
When I lived in Scotland, many years ago, it was normal practice to sell granite/stone eggs to American tourists as haggis eggs.

Always sold out, regardless of price, and couldn’t keep up with demand.

woodPixel
7th February 2021, 04:19 PM
For you'se who be linguisticated, one closer to our hearts...

Shelves... shelfs ...

Drawers... draws...

Old Croc
7th February 2021, 10:22 PM
One is a staff, more than one are staves.
That's interesting, I did some googling and I am confused. That may apply to music, but when I did a barrel making course a very long time ago, they said one bit was a stave, and more than one were staves. Gotta love English.
Rgds,
Crocy.

rrich
10th February 2021, 01:05 PM
For you'se who be linguisticated, one closer to our hearts...

Shelves... shelfs ...

Drawers... draws...

Drawers ? ? ? ? ?

rustynail
10th February 2021, 01:45 PM
For you'se who be linguisticated, one closer to our hearts...

Shelves... shelfs ...

Drawers... draws...

Drawer... Drawers....Drawee
Draw...Draws... Drawing...Drawn... Drew
Shelf... Shelves...Shelved... Shelving

A Duke
10th February 2021, 02:35 PM
And 40 whores pulled down their draws.

woodPixel
10th February 2021, 05:31 PM
Heres some enlightenment for ye ignorant peasants! Drawer - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawer)

rustynail
11th February 2021, 12:04 PM
And 40 whores pulled down their draws.

16th Century English... Drawers - Undergarment.

clear out
12th February 2021, 07:22 AM
Mrs wasn’t impressed when I put this up in the ‘shop.
Sort of out of sight nowadaze.
H