beefs (beeves?)

[Deleted member 13905]

Serious answer: a large percentage of the world’s population are cunts. Why should blues be any different? Mark my words, there’ll be a few people on here who hate you simply for coming on and pissing about even though it’s harmless

yep, they occasionally point it out to me.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

i hadn't even considered it, but you're right.
if the plural of roof is rooves then the plural of beef must be beeves.

clever ****!

The plural of roof is roofs.

The plural of hoof is hooves.

The plural of octopus is octopodes, so shouldn’t it be beefodes.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

yep, they occasionally point it out to me.

Well, we are the same person

;-)

 

[Deleted member 13905]

Well, we are the same person

;-)

and it's nice that, at such, at least we get along splendidly with ourselves.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

The plural of roof is roofs.

The plural of hoof is hooves.

The plural of octopus is octopodes, so shouldn’t it be beefodes.

I feel like we probably need a French person to properly adjudicate on this discussion. Unfortunately, and somewhat ironically, I also have beef with them.

 

[Deleted member 13905]

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I feel like we probably need a French person to properly adjudicate on this discussion. Unfortunately, and somewhat ironically, I also have beef with them.

Boeuves?

 

[Blue Mist]

Are we saying that if you had 3 Sunday Roasts on the table you'd have 3 beeves ?


Unless one was pork.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I feel like we probably need a French person to properly adjudicate on this discussion. Unfortunately, and somewhat ironically, I also have beef with them.

No point asking them. Beef is boeuf, and egg is oeuf.....so they'll tell you beef is just eef, plural eeves, by the way

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Are we saying that if you had 3 Sunday Roasts on the table you'd have 3 beeves ?


Unless one was pork.

I would say that would be division of a single beef. Like if you cut somebody's arms off, they don't suddenly become 'people'.

Now if you had the need of multiple cows worth, then we're probably talking about beeves.

 

[Deleted member 13905]

I feel like we probably need a French person to properly adjudicate on this discussion. Unfortunately, and somewhat ironically, I also have beef with them.

i might be wrong but as far as i know,
the nearest french word to adjudicate is juger,
which, in fact, means to judge.
which is sort of what i was originally getting at.
people judging other people.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

i might be wrong but as far as i know,
the nearest french word to adjudicate is juger,
which, in fact, means to judge.
which is sort of what i was originally getting at.
people judging other people.

And so we come full circle.

Sorry for hijacking your well-intentioned thread with these etymological musings, calum. I'll let you crack on.

FYI, to your original point, I don't know I think people can sometimes just be not very nice.

 

[Deleted member 13905]

the plural of reef is reefs.

kevin seriously dislikes this post

 

[Deleted member 13905]

And so we come full circle.

Sorry for hijacking your well-intentioned thread with these etymological musings, calum. I'll let you crack on.

FYI, to your original point, I don't know I think people can sometimes just be not very nice.

there's no need to be sorry.
muse away.
le chaos fait la muse :)

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

kevin seriously dislikes this post

Poor lad, couldn't hit a Beef's arse with a Banjo.

 

[Blue Mist]

i might be wrong but as far as i know,
the nearest french word to adjudicate is juger,
which, in fact, means to judge.
which is sort of what i was originally getting at.
people judging other people.

Don't the French call us Ros Bifs ?

 

[Deleted member 13905]

The plural of roof is roofs.

The plural of hoof is hooves.

The plural of octopus is octopodes, so shouldn’t it be beefodes.

a baby hedgehog is called an hoglet.
the mother can have about 4 or 5 per year,
but very few, if any, of them survive.
the mother often deserts or eats them.
so there is actually no plural word for hoglet.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

a baby hedgehog is called an hoglet.
the mother can have about 4 or 5 per year,
but very few, if any, of them survive.
the mother often deserts or eats them.
so there is actually no plural word for hoglet.

Hedgehoglet is by far and away the best name for a young animal.

Wibbli Wobbli being the Welsh for jellyfish is probably the best named animal.

 

[Deleted member 13905]

Don't the French call us Ros Bifs ?

ros biives.

 

[Barcon]

Shut yer traps. There's no such thing as beefs.
And, you need your head testing to go into the politics forum.