Correct "English"?

ZEROPILOT · Dec 29, 2015

What would the plural of a tortoise be?
For example, a Redfoot:
Redfeet
Redfooteds, my thought.
Redfoots
This word, or a lack of a word cause me to pause almost each time i post about my Redfootses. Or is it Redfeetses?

jaizei · Dec 29, 2015

I think to be completely correct, you'd include the tortoise part and it'd be red-footed tortoises. But colloquially, I think it's redfoots.

Anyfoot · Dec 29, 2015

ZEROPILOT said:
What would the plural of a tortoise be?
For example, a Redfoot:
Redfeet
Redfooteds, my thought.
Redfoots
This word, or a lack of a word cause me to pause almost each time i post about my Redfootses. Or is it Redfeetses?

Mmm. I've pondered this one before.

My heard of redfoot tortoises.
My heard of red footed tortoises
My heard of redfoots.

"Would one mind if one was to wash ones redfoots." Said the Queen.

Good question Ed.

yillt · Dec 29, 2015

I think red foots.for Marginated you would say Marginateds not marginatedes. I suppose we can all say whatever we want as we all know what red foots ate

Yvonne G · Dec 29, 2015

Geochelone carbonarias

Tom · Dec 29, 2015

RFs.

AnimalLady · Dec 29, 2015

Ha, you made me think about it. Redfoots, my herd of redfoot torts, Here are my Reds.. man i dont know!

Sanchez · Dec 29, 2015

jaizei said:
I think to be completely correct, you'd include the tortoise part and it'd be red-footed tortoises. But colloquially, I think it's redfoots.

You sir or madam, are correct. The tortoise is what is plur not the red foot part

RayRay · Dec 29, 2015

I think it should be redfeets just saying

Razan · Dec 29, 2015

Since the plural of cactus is cacti, shouldn't the plural of tortoise be torti ?

Spellcheck says no but my tortoise says yes.

Gillian M · Dec 29, 2015

Razan said:
Since the plural of cactus is cacti, shouldn't the plural of tortoise be torti ?

Spellcheck says no but my tortoise says yes.

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That would make sense.

(And by the way, I love the pic of your tort.

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Gillian M · Dec 29, 2015

ZEROPILOT said:
What would the plural of a tortoise be?
For example, a Redfoot:
Redfeet
Redfooteds, my thought.
Redfoots
This word, or a lack of a word cause me to pause almost each time i post about my Redfootses. Or is it Redfeetses?

An interesting point, Ed.

But frankly speaking I do not have the faintest idea.

Gillian M · Dec 29, 2015

Ed, here's something "funny" in our English language.

Have you ever wondered why the letters “ough” can be pronounced in so many different ways (/oʊ/ as in “though”, /uː/ as in “through”, /ʌf/ as in “rough”, /ɒf/ as in “cough”, /ɔː/ as in “thought”, /aʊ/ as in “bough”, /ə/ as in “thorough”?

dmmj · Dec 29, 2015

English is a crazy language hurts my brain to think about it. ( oooow)

jaizei · Dec 29, 2015

dmmj said:
English is a crazy language hurts my brain to think about it. ( oooow)

Razan · Dec 30, 2015

Gillian Moore said:
Ed, here's something "funny" in our English language.
Have you ever wondered why the letters “ough” can be pronounced in so many different ways (/oʊ/ as in “though”, /uː/ as in “through”, /ʌf/ as in “rough”, /ɒf/ as in “cough”, /ɔː/ as in “thought”, /aʊ/ as in “bough”, /ə/ as in “thorough”?

Wough, that is a lot of uses for ough.

Maggie Cummings · Dec 30, 2015

I was born In San Francisco, and I always say I speak American...Meaning no disrespect to the actual English people.

Gillian M · Jan 1, 2016

Razan said:
Wough, that is a lot of uses for ough.

And that "ough" is not always pronounced the same way. Funny isn't it?

ZEROPILOT · Jan 1, 2016

maggie3fan said:
I was born In San Francisco, and I always say I speak American...Meaning no disrespect to the actual English people.

There's American English and then there is the Queens English.
And whatever that is that they speak up in New England.

Gillian M · Jan 1, 2016

Funny isn't it?

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