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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-72-1068914818 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would you say "deers" and "mooses"? Irrelevantly, at Shaw Brick in Lantz, the plural of "brick" is "brick," as in "We shipped 10,000 brick." No logic to some plurals, but they are more fun than standardization. Cheers, Nancy Nancy Roberts Design Celebrating 22 years of making you look GOOD See my ceramic sculpture at http://swoonfineart.com/index.php/home/artists/nancy_roberts/ Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6 902 461-9488 On 6-Nov-14, at 6:18 PM, John and Nhung wrote: > If the bird(s) are the subjects of the sentence, the verb will tell > the > tale. Otherwise, ... damned if I know! > > -----Original Message----- > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca > ] > On Behalf Of Jim Wolford > Sent: November-06-14 5:54 PM > To: naturens > Subject: [NatureNS] question re plurals of bird names?? (from > nitpicker Jim) > > I have just read Ken McKenna's latest posting, as usual full of > interesting > stuff, but here is a question I have wanted to raise for some time > now - and > this will bug some of you, who should sign off now.. > > In recent times, I have grown tired of trying to know when to apply > an "s" > to make a plural vs. "knowing" which species are best left alone when > forming plural numbers. Especially problematic are "snipe" vs. > "snipes" or > "woodcock" or "teal" etc. etc. I with my "common-sense" rules of > grammar > have decided to just Anglicize all bird names by adding "s" or "es" > to all > of them, as some of you have noted when I write "teals", e.g. > > What say the rest of you? or does anyone care? Is this important to > anyone? > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > --Apple-Mail-72-1068914818 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Would you say "deers" and = "mooses"?<div><br></div><div>Irrelevantly, at Shaw Brick in Lantz, the = plural of "brick" is "brick," as in "We shipped 10,000 = brick."</div><div><br></div><div>No logic to some plurals, but they are = more fun than = standardization.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div= >Nancy</div><div><br></div><div><br><div = apple-content-edited=3D"true"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; = text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: = 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"orphans: = 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: = none; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"orphans: = 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: = none; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; = widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = ">Nancy Roberts Design</div><div style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = ">Celebrating 22 years of making you look GOOD</div><div = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = "><br class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>See my ceramic = sculpture at <a = href=3D"http://swoonfineart.com/index.php/home/artists/nancy_roberts/">htt= p://swoonfineart.com/index.php/home/artists/nancy_roberts/</a></div><div><= br></div><div style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6</div><div = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: