Timeline for What is the plural form of "zero"?
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| Jul 2, 2021 at 23:40 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Feb 3, 2020 at 7:25 | comment | added | Andrew | @endolith Even though right, right or wrong I really don't care; in the end it's all made up bullcrap anyways. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 6:36 | comment | added | endolith | @Andrew english.stackexchange.com/a/56010/7788 | |
| Feb 1, 2020 at 21:47 | comment | added | Andrew |
@endolith No actually it's 's even though not possessive, that's the rule. E.g. "I have 10 StackOverflow's."
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| Jan 31, 2020 at 20:34 | comment | added | endolith |
@Andrew Don't you mean 0s?
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| Mar 31, 2018 at 21:27 | comment | added | Andrew |
0's... Ahahaha... Muahhahaha
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| Aug 5, 2017 at 14:05 | comment | added | BladorthinTheGrey | Surely multiplying zero still results in zero?! | |
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| Mar 9, 2017 at 21:23 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Unclear. Please give some examples of where you would use the "plural". | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 21:08 | history | edited | herisson |
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| Jul 20, 2016 at 10:32 | comment | added | josh | @mwfearnley This should have been THE answer. | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 7:12 | comment | added | MC Emperor | I guess we're mixing up two things: the plural form of the word "zero" itself, and the value of the cardinal number '0', that is, whether the succeeding word is singular or plural. Indeed, 1 car, 2 cars, but also 0 cars. | |
| Aug 26, 2015 at 11:57 | comment | added | Doctor Jones |
I'd say nohat's example should be one zero, zero zeroes. You can then clearly see that zero is not already plural.
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| Aug 26, 2015 at 9:33 | comment | added | sohaiby |
You won't say twos comments either for two comments. Plurality added to the subject
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| Feb 22, 2015 at 0:22 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Oct 20, 2014 at 4:21 | comment | added | mwfearnley | If I Google "zeroes", I get the definition for the verb "zero", for which it claims "zeroes" is the third person present tense. If I were writing something using both words, I think I personally would use "zeros" for the plural and "zeroes" for the verb - e.g. "when he zeroes the counter, the digits all change to zeros". | |
| May 23, 2013 at 15:23 | answer | added | Mixo Lydian | timeline score: 18 | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 11:21 | vote | accept | svick | ||
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| Jan 16, 2013 at 21:25 | history | edited | RegDwigнt |
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| Oct 26, 2012 at 8:20 | comment | added | Doctor Jones | You wouldn't say five zero when referring to "00000". Your example is of the plural form of comment. | |
| Oct 26, 2012 at 0:47 | comment | added | nohat | I would not that zero is already plural. One comment, zero comments | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 21:11 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2012 at 11:37 | history | edited | RegDwigнt |
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| Jul 26, 2012 at 10:43 | answer | added | user3371 | timeline score: 29 | |
| Oct 9, 2010 at 17:20 | vote | accept | Doctor Jones | ||
| Oct 8, 2010 at 13:23 | answer | added | RegDwigнt | timeline score: 143 | |
| Oct 8, 2010 at 13:21 | history | asked | Doctor Jones | CC BY-SA 2.5 |