Kilt versu Kilts

[Mael Coluim]

Most of us would agree that the plural of deer is deer. The same is with beer. There really is no plural beers. But what about the plural of kilt?

According to Wikipedia the plural of kilt is kilt.

[beloitpiper]

When you have a lot of them, you'd say "Look at all of those kilts" but when referring to it, but asking a person if they wear them, you don't say "Do you wear kilts?" you say "Do you wear the kilt?"

At least, that's how I think of it.

[Riverkilt]

Cactus Cacti......Kilt Kilti....

Ron

[Amoskeag]

Cactus Cacti......Kilt Kilti....

Ron

Around here you're kilty until proven innocent

[tyger]

1 = kilt
>1 = kiltae

[Weasel Mender]

Cactus Cacti......Kilt Kilti....

Ron

mouse mice......louse lice.....house hice.....blouse blice

Weasel

[Ian.MacAllan]

When you have a lot of them, you'd say "Look at all of those kilts" but when referring to it, but asking a person if they wear them, you don't say "Do you wear kilts?" you say "Do you wear the kilt?"

At least, that's how I think of it.

Right on, bp---it's all a matter of context and precise meaning and refusing to yeild the high ground to the adamantly ignorant (such as those who refuse to believe that "chad" is already plural, the singular being "a piece of chad").

Asking "Do you wear kilts?" is asking if you wear several of them simultaneously --- ludicrous.

Cactus Cacti......Kilt Kilti....

Ron

stewardess . . . stewardi . . .



Please forgive my extended silence---I've been having horendous hardware problems aggregated by just not keeping track of what I've been doing.

If real estate value is all a matter of location, location, location I think software success is largely a matter of continuity, continuity, continuity . . .

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[ChattanCat]

kilt, kilted...

[Coemgen]

Octopusses or octopi?

[SteveB]

I wear a kilt, I have many a kilt, I have a closet of kilt. Hamish has a house full of kilt. I guess.
---- Steve