Tea and crumpet(s) eating criminal
At 1:40 into the movie trailer, Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) says this line:
You wanna tell me why you just put me in a room with _________________________________________________?
The blank sounds like "this tea and crumpet(s) eating criminal", which seems to refer to Deckard Shaw, who is a British criminal in the movie. (See http://fastandfurious.wikia.com/wiki/Deckard_Shaw )
I do hear "s" at the end of crumpets, but I wonder why it should be in the plural, grammatically speaking.
I mean, you would say "this muffin-eating dog", not ""this muffins-eating dog".
So I'd like someone to check if Dwayne Johnson pronounced it in the plural or not, and if indeed he did, to explain to me why it's in the plural.
Also, since there's two things connected with "and", I wonder how the punctuation should be:
(1) this tea and crumpet(s)-eating criminal
(2) this tea-and-crumpet(s) eating criminal
(3) this tea-and-crumpet(s)-eating criminal
Or if there's any other option(s).
Top answer
listenever So I'd like someone to check if Dwayne Johnson pronounced it in the plural or not, and if indeed he did, He did. listenever to explain to me why it's in the plural. Perhaps the script has it in the plural, or perhaps he slipped in the heat of his vigorous acting.
- listenever So I'd like someone to check if Dwayne Johnson pronounced it in the plural or not, and if indeed he did, He did.
- listenever to explain to me why it's in the plural.
- Perhaps the script has it in the plural, or perhaps he slipped in the heat of his vigorous acting.
- listenever I wonder how the punctuation should be: (3) this tea-and-crumpet(s)-eating criminal
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listeneverSo I'd like someone to check if Dwayne Johnson pronounced it in the plural or not, and if indeed he did,
He did.
listeneverto explain to me why it's in the plural.
Perhaps the script has it in the plural, or perhaps he slipped in the heat of his vigorous acting.
listenever I wo
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