Trav Le Bleu Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Which word in the English language, when you pluralise it, do you add an 's' to it... but not at the end of the word. At least, I think it's the only word.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 18 March 2009 Author Posted 18 March 2009 That's certainly true, but I meant that you add an s and only an s. No other letters.
Wycombe Fox Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 That's certainly true, but I meant that you add an s and only an s. No other letters. Bugger! Let's have a look at what I would've won...
Phube Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 I have no idea... but here's another one for people to try: In which sentence can you have 5 and's together in a row and it be grammatically correct!?
Trav Le Bleu Posted 18 March 2009 Author Posted 18 March 2009 Bugger! Let's have a look at what I would've won... Note: I googled "motorboat pics" and got lots of boobie pics!
lildave3 Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 I have no idea... but here's another one for people to try:In which sentence can you have 5 and's together in a row and it be grammatically correct!? Handy Andy, sandy and dandy.
Phube Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Handy Andy, sandy and dandy. Nope... just the word "AND"!
Edmund Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Im guessing im not the only one who has googled this with no joy.
lildave3 Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Im guessing im not the only one who has googled this with no joy.
Phube Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Is it something to do with a pub sign? Pub or food yes!
Edmund Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 I have an answer. May not be the one you had in mind but it works. cul-de-sac = culs-de-sac http://www.thefreedictionary.com/culs-de-sac google was not used for help
Finnegan Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Nope... just the word "AND"! I hate sprouts and and and and and I HATE Phube.
StanSP Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 I have an answer. May not be the one you had in mind but it works.cul-de-sac = culs-de-sac If that's right, then this could also be used surely: Runner up >>> Runners up
lildave3 Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan......... I thought that.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 18 March 2009 Author Posted 18 March 2009 I have an answer. May not be the one you had in mind but it works.cul-de-sac = culs-de-sac http://www.thefreedictionary.com/culs-de-sac google was not used for help If that's right, then this could also be used surely:Runner up >>> Runners up You've both got the right idea, but it's not hyphenated and I'm 99% sure runners up is two words (as usual, I stand to be corrected!) EDIT: Bum! I just checked my word... and it's hyphenated - or at least it is in the old copy of the Little Oxford Dictionary I checked. As is "runners-up"... so there you go. Neither of you got the word I was thinking of (and which I read in "Reaperman" by Terry Pratchett last night, when it leapt out of the page and got my brain turning and thus kept me awake! It wasn't hyphenated there though.), but you were both in the ball-park (and indeed found other words to which the rule applied.) My word was "passer-by" which changes to "passers-by", but which was written as "passersby" in the aforementioned book. He didn't even have alzheimers then even, no excuse!
Edmund Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 You've both got the right idea, but it's not hyphenated and I'm 99% sure runners up is two words (as usual, I stand to be corrected!)
Trav Le Bleu Posted 18 March 2009 Author Posted 18 March 2009 See above "editted" post. I concede defeat!
Edmund Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 See above "editted" post. I concede defeat! :mrgreen:
Lillehamring Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Im guessing im not the only one who has googled this with no joy. Amateurs http://www.painintheenglish.com/post.php?id=492
Lillehamring Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 this ie even more contrived: http://www.geocities.com/oosterwal/puzzle/had.htm
lildave3 Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 Amateurs http://www.painintheenglish.com/post.php?id=492 I didn't google that one. And that's gobbledygook to me.
Edmund Posted 18 March 2009 Posted 18 March 2009 I didn't google that one.And that's gobbledygook to me. What he said. I was talking about the other conundrum.
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