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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

feet

Can I say ? :

I have long / short feet.

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" I have never heard "I have short feet" but "I have little feet" is common. There is no grammatical reason for this; it's just idiomatic.

— BarbaraPA

  • " I have never heard "I have short feet" but "I have little feet" is common.
  • There is no grammatical reason for this; it's just idiomatic.
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You can probably say "I have long feet" but I think it's more common to say "I have big feet."
I have never heard "I have short feet" but "I have little feet" is common.

There is no grammatical reason for this; it's just idiomatic.
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You don't by any chance mean I have long legs, do you? In some languages there is only one word used to refer to both feet and legs.

CB
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