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Jan 1, 2012 at 18:25 answer added Iain timeline score: 0
Sep 11, 2011 at 10:49 history bounty ended CommunityBot
Sep 9, 2011 at 16:28 comment added woodykiddy ANYWAYS - This is another example of using plural in American English, probably, grammatically, in an incorrect way. You get to hear it being used a lot on YouTube videos.
Sep 5, 2011 at 15:51 comment added Raku @JSBᾶngs: Does "at school" sound strange to you too? It would be the same concept to me as "at university".
Sep 4, 2011 at 21:59 comment added Matthew Frederick @awoodland Pants refers to a "pair of pants", though, so the s is more clearly appropriate; pants aren't generally available singularly except perhaps at a garment factory. Same with scissors.
Sep 4, 2011 at 15:44 comment added Flexo - Save the data dump I don't think it's just an American thing. "Pants" has a British meaning but is a pluralised singular noun.
Sep 3, 2011 at 16:15 answer added Fraser Orr timeline score: 2
Sep 3, 2011 at 12:45 answer added Robusto timeline score: 6
Sep 3, 2011 at 12:44 answer added Peter Shor timeline score: 2
Sep 3, 2011 at 12:27 comment added Peter Shor Even worse, "We ... are bivouaced for the night in a small woods." (Taken with context from Google books so that Brits will believe me when I say that some Americans actually use this phrase.)
Sep 3, 2011 at 12:16 answer added tdhsmith timeline score: 13
Sep 3, 2011 at 10:41 answer added Kyle Pearson timeline score: -1
Sep 3, 2011 at 9:42 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/109924286218772480
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Feb 8, 2011 at 21:23 comment added John Berryman I wonder why my family members sometimes pluralize store names: "Hey ya'll, we goin' to Walmarts. Yonna go?"
Feb 8, 2011 at 7:33 comment added Gareth Simpson I'd say winnings but never "a winnings".
Feb 7, 2011 at 6:11 comment added Dusty Out of curiosity, do you also refer to someone's proceeds from a contest as a winning (where I would use winnings)? E.g. After his opponent folded John collected his winnings and left the casino.
Feb 7, 2011 at 5:15 answer added JRideout timeline score: 14
Feb 6, 2011 at 18:01 comment added ukayer +1 just for asking the question. It is a saving of $10. Savings is the plural of amounts that you save, i.e. a savings account.
Feb 6, 2011 at 17:12 comment added Gareth Simpson I think my use of "such and such" ( answers.com/topic/such-and-such ) is confusing my question, I've changed it.
Feb 6, 2011 at 17:11 history edited Gareth Simpson CC BY-SA 2.5
I think I confused people with "such and such" as an expression and had it badly corrected.
Feb 6, 2011 at 4:32 history edited avpaderno CC BY-SA 2.5
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Feb 6, 2011 at 4:32 comment added avpaderno @nohat: It's probably what he meant; in that case, a comma should be used. I would not use "and such a thing" in a sentence like that, but that could be because a different style.
Feb 6, 2011 at 2:56 comment added nohat @Dour High Arch really? “the <NOUN>” implies that there is only one <NOUN> in existence?
Feb 6, 2011 at 2:39 comment added Dour High Arch "At the university"? "In the hospital"? That would make sense only if there were exactly one of each in existence.
Feb 5, 2011 at 23:33 comment added nohat @kiamlaluno I think he meant “‘A savings of $10’ or such" and “such a thing is ‘a ways off’”
Feb 5, 2011 at 23:25 comment added nohat It’s not really plural if you use the word a in front of it, is it? It’s just a noun ending in s
Feb 5, 2011 at 19:29 answer added Chris B. Behrens timeline score: -3
Feb 4, 2011 at 23:07 comment added avpaderno Or such and such a thing? Is it a mix between such and such and such a thing? :-)
Feb 4, 2011 at 22:50 comment added Kosmonaut Do Brits not use the word means as in "a means to an end"?
Feb 4, 2011 at 21:47 comment added JSBձոգչ And it sounds deeply weird to my American ear when you say "at university" or "in hospital" without "the".
Feb 4, 2011 at 21:35 history asked Gareth Simpson CC BY-SA 2.5