Timeline for "Here is my two cents" vs "Here are my two cents"?
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| Nov 18, 2022 at 22:02 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guesswork#Noun>). Dressed the naked link.
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| Oct 17, 2017 at 19:19 | vote | accept | GWR | ||
| Oct 17, 2017 at 17:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/920348662382956545 | ||
| Oct 17, 2017 at 17:42 | answer | added | ArchContrarian | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 17, 2017 at 16:57 | history | edited | herisson |
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| Oct 17, 2017 at 16:33 | answer | added | C Adams | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 12:50 | answer | added | Helmar | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 12:28 | comment | added | Helmar | Maybe there are five one dollar notes. | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 12:27 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I did find Here are five dollars. Buy yourself a revolver and commit suicide on Google Books. But it does sound a bit weird to me. It's an amount of money, not five separate items. | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 12:20 | comment | added | Max Williams | I've seen people use both but I believe that "Here is my two cents" is both more common and more correct, because, as @FumbleFingers says, it means your opinion, which is singular. Also, I believe it's a contraction of "My two cent's worth (of thoughts)", which would also be singular. | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 12:05 | comment | added | GWR | @FumbleFingers - I think you might be correct. Now that I think through another example, you would say "Here is 100 dollars." and not "Here are 100 dollars", correct? You are giving a sum of 100 dollars as a single action. | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 12:02 | history | edited | GWR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 19, 2016 at 11:56 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | In BrE (not completely certain about AmE), it should be is because "two cents" is semantically a singular element - effectively it's short for my contribution (which is worth two cents). | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 11:56 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | This is interesting (does "here" change it up?) Please add any info you found on searching out the answer or it may be closed for lack of research. | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 11:34 | history | asked | GWR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |