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26th August 14, 08:32 AM
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Wikipedia says:
The plural is most commonly sgian-dubhs (in its various spellings) but sgians-dubh is also occasionally encountered. The proper Gaelic plural forms sg(e)inean-dubh or sgianan-dubh are only rarely encountered in English usage.
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26th August 14, 09:28 AM
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The closest language in translate.google.com is Irish. Black knife translates to "scian dubh", black knives translates to "sceana dubh". Again, that's into Irish, not Gaelic.
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Just my 2¢ worth.
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28th October 14, 08:09 AM
#3
Would that be "your two pennies" or your two pence?
Just asking...
Chuckling here.
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28th October 14, 08:14 AM
#4
 Originally Posted by marypenny
Would that be "your two pennies" or your two pence?
Just asking...
Chuckling here.
"Tuppence", surely?
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26th August 14, 10:44 AM
#5
Originally Posted by Nathan
Wikipedia says:
I would agree with this. 
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26th August 14, 12:09 PM
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After I'd started this I thought how does one say the plurals in English of foreign words that would not end in "s" in their original.
In Italian, the plural of pizza is pizze.
In English to say "There's a choice of different pizze" would sound affected, if not incomprehensible. "There's a choice of pizzas" is the only possible way to say it.
I'd put the "s" at the end of sgian, rather the dubh.
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15th October 14, 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by creagdhubh
I would agree with this.
S'mise cuideachd.
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15th October 14, 08:17 AM
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27th October 14, 04:37 AM
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I have a Gaelic dictionary to hand (Malcolm MacLennan) and it gives
sgian, n.f. gen. sgine and sgidhinn, pl. sginean, a knife; sgian-pheann, penknife; sgian-luthaidh, clasp-knife; sgian-bhuird, table knife...
So the plural of 'knife' is 'sginean'.
What I don't know is that when you make a noun plural, if the adjective has to mutate to agree. (It seems silly in English because 'black' is 'black' whether there's one black thing or many, but in some languages the adjective has to take a plural form.)
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27th October 14, 04:42 AM
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Originally Posted by OC Richard
I have a Gaelic dictionary to hand (Malcolm MacLennan) and it gives
sgian, n.f. gen. sgine and sgidhinn, pl. sginean, a knife; sgian-pheann, penknife; sgian-luthaidh, clasp-knife; sgian-bhuird, table knife...
So the plural of 'knife' is 'sginean'.
What I don't know is that when you make a noun plural, if the adjective has to mutate to agree. (It seems silly in English because 'black' is 'black' whether there's one black thing or many, but in some languages the adjective has to take a plural form.)
In gaelic, the adjective does not mutate.
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