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Re: Apostrophe or not an apostrophe - that is the question.

No. A 'thank you' is a colloquial compound noun, like lounge room or room heater, and the 's' in 'thank yous' signifies the plural, so no apostrophe is used. Apostrophes are used to express possession e.g. Bob's car; or to indicate some letters have been omitted in a...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by igbruce 21 days ago Plurals, Possessives, Nouns, Pronouns, Dialects, Apostrophes, Plural Words
Re: correct sentence??

From answers.com : Speakers of some vernacular American dialects, particularly in the South, may use the possessive reflexive form hisself instead of himself (as in He cut hisself shaving ) and theirselves or theirself for themselves (as in They found theirselves alone ). These forms...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Ruslana 1 yr 85 days ago Plurals, Possessives, Nouns, Pronouns, Numbers, British English, Dialects
Re: Who are that bunch of rednecks?

I just did a little search on the net and found out that people really don't use those kinds of expressions. So it must be that, as you all say, collective nouns are not good in the structures I wanted to use. I thought they were possible, that's why I asked. Oddly enough, I often use those...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Kooyeen 1 yr 228 days ago Verbs, Plurals, Nouns, Dialects, Expressions
Re: What do you know about the history of English?

Some of the Scandinavian languages have had an effect on the development of English. If you google 'the Danelaw' you will see that Norwegian and Danish Vikings were in control of a large area of north and east England back in the 11th Century. This led to Old Norse giving many 'loan words' to...

Cultural Anecdotes, Similarities and Differences. by nona the brit 1 yr 278 days ago Dialects, History of English, Nouns, Plurals, Pronouns
Re: How many words can you make out of NeuroDiagnostic laboratories?

Good luck with the fundraising Here's a couple bacteriologists, containerboards, discourageable, rebroadcasting, ribonucleosides, ribonucleotides, subdistricting antiobscenities, bacteriologies, bacteriologist, biconditionals, containerboard, contrabandists, counterordering,...

Puzzles, Riddles, and Word ESL Games by Anonymous 2 yr 102 days ago Nouns, Genders, Plurals, Dates, Clauses, Articles, Literature, Analogies, Colons, Gerunds, Negations, DELTA, Dialects, Conditionals, Idiolect

Clive wrote: I've never seen 'succour' spelled as 'succor', so it looks very odd to me. I guess it's just another case of American vs. British spelling? Exactly. ------------ Main Entry: 1 suc·cor Function: noun Inflected Form(s): -s Usage: see -or ...

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Marius Hancu 2 yr 192 days ago Nouns, Plurals, Spelling, Dialects, Images

Re: Attributive adjectives

Strictly, the noun as adjective appears in the singular ( shoe store, pencil case ). There is no rule, however, and occasionally we get variations ( futures market, sports club ). Usually, a reason can be found. In the case of telecommunications market , telecommunications has developed into a...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mister Micawber 2 yr 242 days ago Plurals, Nouns, Dialects
Re: Is the past form of 'welcome' 'welcame'?

Hello Japan I'm interested in the topic you raised. I am now living in Tokyo and on my way to work I can see an English-like phrase on the signboard of a jewelry store, that reads 'Well come!'. You may feel it's funny, but I don't think that use of 'well come' is not so rare in Japan....

ESL General English Grammar Questions by paco2004 3 yr 92 days ago Verbs, Plurals, Tenses, Nouns, Dialects, Inflections
Re: History of English

Hello Abbie I got the info in OED Gerund -ing The original function of the suffix was to form nouns of action; as ácsung (asking), from ácsian to ask;céapung, -ing (cheaping),;créopung (creeping); gaderung (gathering). These substantives were originally abstract; but even in OE. they...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by paco2004 3 yr 240 days ago Nouns, Verbs, Vowels, Dialects, Plurals, Adverbs, Gerunds, Weddings
Re: A dog and dogs

Yoko: Some of my dictionaries say that "deer" is both the singular and the plural form. Additionally, Yoko, There is one deer in the park. There are two deer in the park. "deer" doesn't take -s in the plural. It's a mass noun. But in my dialect, Canadian English, as I am sure...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Casi 3 yr 271 days ago American English, Plurals, Nouns, Dialects, Colloquialisms

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