Ye gods and goddesses! We have the makin’s of a horse race!
The wik has it as a singular flat out.
Etymonline’s entry suggests cannola is Italian only
(and not for the pastry).
And the OED admits solely of the plural.
I’m tellin’ granma!
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- Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: AA Meeting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3928
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: AA Meeting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3928
Re: AA Meeting
I’ve never used that - I get the OED through my library system.
Just looked at etymonline.com and I don’t see that.
Is there another version?
Just looked at etymonline.com and I don’t see that.
Is there another version?
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: AA Meeting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3928
Re: AA Meeting
There are also graffiti and paparazzi, both with legit singulars.
Cannoli sounds off, using it as single (guess l’ll have to have two . . .),
perhaps because we’re so used to a final i indicating the plural.
There doesn’t seem to be a singular form.
Cannoli sounds off, using it as single (guess l’ll have to have two . . .),
perhaps because we’re so used to a final i indicating the plural.
There doesn’t seem to be a singular form.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Washington Irving Specialists?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2515
Washington Irving Specialists?
I’ve been wondering if the name Diedrich Knickerbocker
was supposed to be a joke of a kind on ‘died rich’, as a comment
on supposed Dutch parsimony.
was supposed to be a joke of a kind on ‘died rich’, as a comment
on supposed Dutch parsimony.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Another Botheration
- Replies: 1
- Views: 976
Another Botheration
Pre s. I always thought Chuck Berry - he was quite a wordsmith - coined that word, but it’s in the OED, going back well over two hundred years. I periodically check a few automated phone lines for credit card or other kinds of balances. They’ve always been natural-sounding. Lately, a couple are usin...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: AA Meeting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3928
Re: AA Meeting
Another interesting case is that of data and media.
The singular forms aren’t often required, but the plural quite
often are heard with the singular verb!
The singular forms aren’t often required, but the plural quite
often are heard with the singular verb!
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: AA Meeting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3928
Re: AA Meeting
Ya big silly! I was going to come back, anyway. I should have said two lists, the third being of words with plurals only for different types. coffee , wheat , etc. There’s a word for that kind of noun . . . . Now I think of it, aren’t there also words which are plural only in a non-literal sense? Wa...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: AA Meeting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3928
Re: AA Meeting
I have such a list, in a 1979 print dictionary. Actually, three lists, depending on this or that. But how’s this for an equine of a similar hue? Words for which the singular is the same as the plural . Lemme explain. I’m thinking - not without a degree of irritation - of cases where the singular see...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: AA Meeting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3928
Re: AA Meeting
Well done. That would be the one,
and probably the only one.
and probably the only one.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: AA Meeting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3928
AA Meeting
I have come up with over thirty place names (as rendered in English) - and picked up a few more in a gazetteer - beginning and ending with A. You wanna make somethin’ of it? I also know a like number of women’s names with L(s) followed by N(s), with vowels here and there. (Admittedly, some are cultu...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Another Petty Pet
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3767
Another Petty Pet
Perhaps you’ve heard this. I find it quite annoying. A number of young adults I hear on the radio often end a sentence with a downward intonation and elongation of the stressed syllable of the last word. It adds an interrogative quality, as if they’re saying, “This is a declarative sentence, but ple...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Alternative Christmas hymns
- Replies: 36
- Views: 113365
Re: Alternative Christmas hymns
As long as you’ve added ‘other’ . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QZN5CAvrIs. I’ve been an atheist over sixty years and have been moved by this about that long. Adding . . . I found this text online. All I can tell you about its origin is that Dyer-Bennett says he learned it from his grandmothe...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Another Curiosity . . .
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1062
Re: Another Curiosity . . .
Excellent, my friend! But not what I was thinking of. There goes my ‘unique’. And Mom always said I was special . . . . And looking at the OED, it’s not the only aeo- entry. A few for aio- as well. And one -Old English - for oai-. And oei- Oy gevalt! Perhaps we should drop the whole thing. But I’ll ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Another Curiosity . . .
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1062
Another Curiosity . . .
. . . for you to disregard. Discovered during my Brownian movement among the vast fields of knowledge. To wit, a word comprising three vowels followed by a consonant. Possibly unique.
Tune in next week.
Tune in next week.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Vocabulary
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2580
Vocabulary
A recent post about phrases like ‘my homework needs done’
makes me wonder if there’s a word, analogous to ‘elision’,
for excision of a word or words. Why not a Board Index category for ‘Vocabulary’? Not etymology, but usage of the familiar, and discovery of the un-.
makes me wonder if there’s a word, analogous to ‘elision’,
for excision of a word or words. Why not a Board Index category for ‘Vocabulary’? Not etymology, but usage of the familiar, and discovery of the un-.