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On 8/7/06 13:42, "Phil Clark" wrote:

I tend to think that if panini is going to be used as a singular, it
should be one of those words that is always plural, like trousers. So
one panini, two panini.

I went to the shop today and bought a trousers? :-)

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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:56:20 +0100, Stimpy
wrote:

On 8/7/06 13:42, "Phil Clark" wrote:

I tend to think that if panini is going to be used as a singular, it
should be one of those words that is always plural, like trousers. So
one panini, two panini.

I went to the shop today and bought a trousers? :-)

OK then, gallows.

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James Farrar wrote:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:08:25 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

Phil Clark wrote:

one of those words that is always plural, like trousers.

Never stayed in a hotel room with a trouser press?

Adjectival form.

Pardon? If you are saying that trouser is an adjective, then I'm
beginning to wonder what it means, and if it is part of the sequence:
trous, trouser, trousest.

--
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(37 092 at London Liverpool Street, 13 Apr 1980)

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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:41:52 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:08:25 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

Phil Clark wrote:

one of those words that is always plural, like trousers.

Never stayed in a hotel room with a trouser press?

Adjectival form.

Pardon? If you are saying that trouser is an adjective, then I'm
beginning to wonder what it means, and if it is part of the sequence:
trous, trouser, trousest.

Sure it's an adjective. It modifies the word "press", telling you what
kind of a press it is.

--
James Farrar
. @gmail.com

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Phil Clark wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:56:20 +0100, Stimpy
wrote:

On 8/7/06 13:42, "Phil Clark" wrote:

I tend to think that if panini is going to be used as a singular,
it should be one of those words that is always plural, like
trousers. So one panini, two panini.

I went to the shop today and bought a trousers? :-)

OK then, gallows.

You bought gallows in a shop?? Is that legal?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

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James Farrar wrote:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:41:52 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:08:25 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

Phil Clark wrote:

one of those words that is always plural, like trousers.

Never stayed in a hotel room with a trouser press?

Adjectival form.

Pardon? If you are saying that trouser is an adjective, then I'm
beginning to wonder what it means, and if it is part of the sequence:
trous, trouser, trousest.

Sure it's an adjective. It modifies the word "press", telling you what
kind of a press it is.

Such an idea gives me an ache. The adjective "head" tells you what kind
of an ache.

--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9683667.html
(50001 (Class 114) at Sheffield Midland, Dec 1979)

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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:24:23 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Phil Clark wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:56:20 +0100, Stimpy
wrote:

On 8/7/06 13:42, "Phil Clark" wrote:

I tend to think that if panini is going to be used as a singular,
it should be one of those words that is always plural, like
trousers. So one panini, two panini.

I went to the shop today and bought a trousers? :-)

OK then, gallows.

You bought gallows in a shop?? Is that legal?

Entirely. Using it is a bit dodgy, though.

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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:24:23 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Phil Clark wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:56:20 +0100, Stimpy
wrote:

On 8/7/06 13:42, "Phil Clark" wrote:

I tend to think that if panini is going to be used as a singular,
it should be one of those words that is always plural, like
trousers. So one panini, two panini.

I went to the shop today and bought a trousers? :-)

OK then, gallows.

You bought gallows in a shop?? Is that legal?

ObPedant: a gallows....
^^

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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:18:29 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:41:52 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:08:25 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

Phil Clark wrote:

one of those words that is always plural, like trousers.

Never stayed in a hotel room with a trouser press?

Adjectival form.

Pardon? If you are saying that trouser is an adjective, then I'm
beginning to wonder what it means, and if it is part of the sequence:
trous, trouser, trousest.

Sure it's an adjective. It modifies the word "press", telling you what
kind of a press it is.

Such an idea gives me an ache. The adjective "head" tells you what kind
of an ache.

They have headaches; not heads ache.

--
James Farrar
. @gmail.com

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On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:05:39 GMT, Chris Tolley
wrote:

Richard M Willis wrote:

"James Farrar" wrote in message

Simply wrong. It's the singular form of pence in the same way that
pound is the singular form of pounds.

"penny" is the singular form of "pence", so that "pence" is inherently
plural ?! I didn't know that.

Isn't learning wonderful.

We need the word penny (which, just to extend your education, also has
the plural "pennies") so that we can communicate properly.

Thus, we can say:

I have one penny. - this is how much money I have.
I have a one penny coin. - this is the form it is in.

And

I have two pence - this is how much money I have

I have two pennies/I have two one penny coins/I have a two pence coin.
- to indicate the form it is in.

zero centimetre, one centimetre, two centimetre.

Arguable. Perhaps correct in technical documents, but to TMOTCO, it's
zero centimetres, one centimetre, two centimetres.


As this is probably posted for Those Down Under in New Zild as of a
certain day 39 years ago... Monday the tenth of July... DC Day!

When pence finally made cents (sorry).