Deers
The grammar monster in me is going to need a trigger warning next time.
I think the wrong spelling is part of the meme adventure
What if it’s different species of deer? Does it work like fish?
Oh deers
Dirz
I would say yes
Oh deer
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naw just the one.
Why is the plural the same as singular that does make no sense
Actually I find it don’t make no sense
It’s Durrs to you city folk.
I’m glad that quick answer is there, no way I’m reading that whole thing.
Why is English so ridiculous that the plural and singular of deer is the same word? And why do people want to keep it that way?
Go speak a language with gendered nouns and leave English alone
The plural of “moose” is also “moose” but it’s not because of English. Moose derives from Algonquian, a Native American language. It kept the same plural ending it had in its original language instead of adopting the normal “s” ending of most English plurals.
I believe the plural of “moose” is actually “meese”.
Goose : Geese :: Moose : Meese
Mouse : Mice :: House : Hice
“MOOSES” Sounds like moose jesus
This isn’t an english specific trait. Lots of languages have something similar.
For instance, in portuguese we do the same for words that end on the letter S.
Ex: Lápis (Pencil), Vírus (Virus), Ônibus (Bus), etc.
John, you can’t license away the plural of deer.
I thought this was common knowledge.
To native English speakers, yes. To non-native speakers, this is yet another bizarre rule they just have to memorize.
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Or they could just ignore it because the point of language rules is to communicate unambiguously and the meaning of “deers” is pretty clear while “deer” is ambiguous.
Common knowledge doesn’t mean people use it. It’s easy to forget even if you studied about it in school.
For example you is singular and plural. But we rarely use you for multiple people nowadays, we just go “you guys”, “you all”, “all of you”, or something else to disambiguate.
Languages move towards easy communication and simplicity.
I acknowledge that the council has made a decision, but given that it is a stupid-ass decision I’ve elected to ignore it.
I want to stand in the eye of the deernado and see how long I can last.
If none of them are bucks, it could be a tornadoe.
Nice 👏👏👏
Considering the other comment mentioning that they do this to protect their young, probably not very long.
Whatever gets your rocks off.
Do they run in the opposite direction on southern hemisphere?
It all depends if it’s a high pressure deer/ant system or a low pressure one.
Hm, interesting.
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Can we save the ants by brushing them away?
Maybe drop a cookie in there to tide them over
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Deers
Not a word.
It’s just Ant… you don’t have to put the ‘s’, ant is already plural
Incorrect
Maybe in the original British English it’s not, but in American English, ant is plural
No it isn’t. Ants is the plural for a single ant in the English language flat out. In no region does the word ‘ant’ fall under the Singular Plural rules.
Well maybe I was referring to deer, and not ants. Humor is dead.
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Unless it’s the human aunt. Like if your mother and father both had a sister named “Sarah” (or if one set of grandparents were very lazy with their naming and your father or mother had two sisters named “Sarah”), you would refer to them collectively as Aunts Sarah.
I actually had a pet moose named Sarah, but have never had a pet ant named Sarah so I can’t confirm this.
