By Plurals, Jokes

I think I have enough experience on these forums to be able to say with some conviction that indiscriminate Google searches send people off in the the wrong direction far more often than they shed light on a question. Google is a fine a useful tool but it is not a reliable method of determining...

Hi NL888"The joke's on you" is an expression that normally means "You (rather than somebody else) are the victim of a joke." or "You are the one we are laughing at"."Busted tees" is not an idiom, but it is a play on words here.A "tee" is a T-shirt. It might also be a golf tee. There is also the...

Hi there Hummingbird,very interesting! I like to play with words, how they are pronounced, etc. But there's a problem: Hummingbird wrote:you're nut about something, it means that you're extremely enthusiastic about it.I think it has to be nuts, plural... The adjective "nuts" means "crazy". But I...

I think the questioner picked NewMoon's answer because there is no word in current use in English which answers the question. Nugry is not a traditional English word. It is a neologism (new word) created by corrupting (altering) the word "newbie," which means a novice, someone new to a game or...

Dear madam / sir, Being possessor of an exploitation right concerning an innovating technology of communication described below, I solicit your attention in order to know if any utilization would eventually interest you. Kind regards, (letters into brackets are readable with a phonetic...

sensibility (sèn´se-bîl´î-tê) noun plural sensibilities 1. The ability to feel or perceive. 2. a. Keen intellectual perception: the sensibility of a painter to color. b. Mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another. 3. ...

Hi, 1.–Do you know how to raise a dog/how to raise dogs? I prefer the plural. I also prefer the verb 'rear'.-Can you raise dogs/raise a god? Again, I prefer the plural. I also prefer the verb 'rear'. I don't know anyone who can raise a god. Do you know the joke about the dyslexic agnostic who...