Knifes or knives

Dan Gray

Dan Gray

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OK
it's hit the fan

am I the only one that this bugs?

I've always called more than one knife, Knives...
I've had many customers call them( as in more that one )Knifes
but also,
I'm hearing makers calling them knifes.

what is right? :confused:
what do you call them :confused:

maybe it's just me with
grey or gray.
Like Greyhound :D
 
What is ya, inorant?:eek: ;) :D

Knife is the singular, knives is the plural.
I got a few knifes in my drawer though.;) :D
 
"Knifes" isn't a real word. I call all mine Sharpy McGillacuttys.
 
Plural for "Knife" is "Knives".

Knife's denotes possesion, as in "I broke my knife's handle".

I am pretty sure that "Knifes" is not a word recognized by any dictionary.
 
Originally posted by Kit Carson
Knives. Grayturds too :)
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Kit Tu rd's are Brown

:D
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I suppose that since we are knifemakers then we have only made one knife. Should we then be called "knivesmakers" if we make two or more?

You know that little thing that moves the arrow looking thingy around on your computer screen and has a "left click" and a "right click"? What's the the plural of that, huh? Mice or mouses?

Oh, and boats, since a maniac started this thread (and there is not a shortage of boats in Maine), how come when you ask someone the length of a boat its always answered with, for example: "36 foot" or "its a 36 footer" not "36 feet"...or how about cordless phones; "It has a thousand foot range!".

If you get pinched twice on the rearend have you been "geesed"?:confused:
 
Colonials!

Those of us who still speak the proper Queen's English call them knives. That is unless the government gets involved and then it is couteaux to satisfy the Quebecois.
 
Does B/F have a spell check and grammer check? I can't find one, obviosli<
 
We flew the plain plane over the plain. When we smelt the smelts cooking we turned right right over the right spot and started dinner. Barry, chosing a knife from among the knives, knifes his way thru crowd before eating. Once he ate his eight fish and we were well under weigh, he looked for a scale to weigh the scales. Of course a coarse waiter was before him so he had to wait find out the weight. But just as we finish the first course, the Finnish pilot chose a new course. Meanwhile in this course of events, I of course was taking my course in English. Whereupon I stopped.

It's a stupid language, really.

Steve
 
Originally posted by george tichbourne
Colonials!

Those of us who still speak the proper Queen's English call them knives. That is unless the government gets involved and then it is couteaux to satisfy the Quebecois.
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So in Franch I'm 'sposen this'll mean thatcha jest have to add uh "ecks" to the behind-side of a werd to make it mean more'n one?

Craig
 
Have any of ya'll ever seen a jass-ack running bass-ack through a patton-cotch with a goap sword tailed to his tie?

:p
 
I'm home grown, but know the difference :D
it's just those chimalies we got up here
can't find one of them thar thangs in the dictionary.:D :D
 
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