Timeline for I like dog or I like dogs which is correct and why?
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| Aug 27, 2015 at 1:18 | comment | added | iBeth01 | I see what you mean. I myself wouldn't call them contractions because I don't know of any contractions that have > 2 words (doesn't mean they don't exist), because contractions usually sound like the contracted words spoken quickly, and because contractions include at least one sound from each of the contracted words. "Beefs" doesn't include any sounds from "made with" or "dishes" ("beefs" ends with an /s/ sound while dishes ends with a /z/ sound). Still "three made with beef" or whatever is definitely the same meaning as my example of "three beefs." | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 23:39 | comment | added | David Richerby | I agree in general, but I disagree with your "three beefs, two turkeys" example. To me (native speaker of British English), that would always be "three beef, two turkey", treated as a contraction of "three beef dishes", "three made with beef" or something like that. | |
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| Aug 25, 2015 at 21:10 | history | answered | iBeth01 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |