Timeline for Plural form of country names
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| Oct 31, 2023 at 13:11 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | There are prima facie more Google hits for "two Frances" than there are for "two Englands". (Interestingly, my spell-checker has flagged 'Englands' while it's thankfully happy with 'Frances'.) | |
| Oct 31, 2023 at 10:34 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Dec 19, 2021 at 8:12 | vote | accept | Al-cameleer | ||
| Oct 10, 2021 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1447079504812335106 | ||
| Oct 9, 2021 at 3:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 5, 2021 at 22:04 | answer | added | Simon Crase | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 5, 2021 at 15:26 | history | edited | Al-cameleer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2021 at 6:13 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Two_Sicilies Just for reference, since it has only been mentioned implicitly up to now and maybe some commenters are not aware that it was a thing. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 22:21 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @user207421 Nevertheless, it would be quite idiomatic to say "There are two Americas today - the vaccinated and the unvaccinated" | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 17:23 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | The show Northern Exposure took place in a (fictional) town called, Sicily, Alaska. So if you were to compare this to the Italian island, you might refer to "the two Sicilies". In reality, there are in fact other Sicilies in the US, in Illinois, Louisiana, and Nebraska. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 14:49 | comment | added | Chris H | @Maverick I can't help thinking of Gollum and his eggses in that case | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 13:51 | comment | added | Maverick | I would pluralizes the S things with es: Two Netherlandses, Two Bahama Islandses, It looks funny, but it's a funny situation. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 12:01 | comment | added | Chris H | @ColinFine if ouy were publishing an English translation of that book, what would you call it? The concept works equally well in both languages (Review in English here, BTW, for those who haven't come across it before, like me) | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 11:58 | comment | added | Chris H | @KillingTime there are two Frances in one set of borders: the France that cooks with butter and the France that uses olive oil | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 11:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 4, 2021 at 11:35 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 11:35 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'There are two Solomon Islands' is a bit dodgy. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 7:12 | answer | added | Michael Homer | timeline score: 13 | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 1:05 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Oct 4, 2021 at 1:03 | comment | added | user207421 | Americas refers to the two continents with that name in their title, not to countries. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 0:15 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 3, 2021 at 22:36 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @MichaelHarvey et ceci appartient à une question posée à ELU comment exactement ? | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 20:17 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @ColinFine - Sous ce titre piquant, les Deux Frances, un écrivain suisse, M. Paul Seippel, a publié un livre qui touche à bien des questions actuelles... (1906) | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 19:48 | comment | added | DjinTonic | @GEdgar I've added book titles with both spellings, Italys and Italies | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 19:35 | comment | added | GEdgar | The Tzar of all the Russias ... One could argue for spelling Italys not Italies. | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 18:59 | answer | added | DjinTonic | timeline score: 41 | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 18:02 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Out of context, hardly anybody would understand Frances (it looks like a woman's name). In context, it makes perfect sense. | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 17:16 | comment | added | Jim | Frances seems just right to me. | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 16:23 | comment | added | Al-cameleer | To suggest that one country (or one's experience in one country) is actually different for one person than it is for another, @killingtime, if that makes sense. "There are two Sicilies", for example, "and my Sicily is different from yours." | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 16:21 | comment | added | jsw29 | Actually, Sicilies and Americas are words that do have a use. The names of most countries, as well as regions, islands, mountains, etc., however, have no plural, because there is no need for it: each of them is a proper name of something that can't be replicated. | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 16:15 | comment | added | KillingTime | What use are you trying to make of plural country names? | |
| S Oct 3, 2021 at 16:12 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Oct 3, 2021 at 16:12 | history | asked | Al-cameleer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |