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What do you call words like "windows"?
Hi,
For some reason, I got to thinking about the word "windows". Windows can either be a plural noun, such as Windows overlooking the sea, or a singular noun, such as the Windows operating system. Is there a term for words such as this, that are both singular and plural depending on context? Also, what other examples of such words can you think of? The only one I've come up with so far is windows.
Al
For some reason, I got to thinking about the word "windows". Windows can either be a plural noun, such as Windows overlooking the sea, or a singular noun, such as the Windows operating system. Is there a term for words such as this, that are both singular and plural depending on context? Also, what other examples of such words can you think of? The only one I've come up with so far is windows.
Al
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[nq:1]Hi, For some reason, I got to thinking about the word "windows". Windows can either be a plural noun, such ... other examples of such words can you think of?
- [nq:1]Hi, For some reason, I got to thinking about the word "windows".
- Windows can either be a plural noun, such ...
- other examples of such words can you think of?
- [/nq] Moose Brian
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[nq:1]Hi, For some reason, I got to thinking about the word "windows". Windows can either be a plural noun, such ... other examples of such words can you think of? The only one I've come up with so far is windows.[/nq]
Moose
Brian
Moose
Brian
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[nq:1]Hi, For some reason, I got to thinking about the word "windows". Windows can either be a plural noun, such ... examples of such words can you think of? The only one I've come up with so far is windows. Al[/nq]
Eastern Airlines is really only one airline from my pov. Are they counting every route they take as a separate line?
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Eastern Airlines is really only one airline from my pov. Are they counting every route they take as a separate line?
s/ meirman If you are emailing me please
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[nq:2]Hi, For some reason, I got to thinking about the ... one I've come up with so far is windows. Al[/nq]
[nq:1]Eastern Airlines is really only one airline from my pov. Are they counting every route they take as a separate line?[/nq]
Once you get on this slope, there's no stopping. Consider General Dynamics what is one "general dynamic"? In the US, corporate entities with plural names ar
[nq:1]Eastern Airlines is really only one airline from my pov. Are they counting every route they take as a separate line?[/nq]
Once you get on this slope, there's no stopping. Consider General Dynamics what is one "general dynamic"? In the US, corporate entities with plural names ar
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[nq:2]Eastern Airlines is really only one airline from my pov. Are they counting every route they take as a separate line?[/nq]
[nq:1]Once you get on this slope, there's no stopping.[/nq]
I hope the slope was within walking distance. One certainly can't fly there on Eastern Airlines. They folded in 1991.
[nq:1]Once you get on this slope, there's no stopping.[/nq]
I hope the slope was within walking distance. One certainly can't fly there on Eastern Airlines. They folded in 1991.
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[nq:2]Once you get on this slope, there's no stopping.[/nq]
[nq:1]I hope the slope was within walking distance. One certainly can't fly there on Eastern Airlines. They folded in 1991.[/nq]
Then where's my luggage?
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[nq:1]I hope the slope was within walking distance. One certainly can't fly there on Eastern Airlines. They folded in 1991.[/nq]
Then where's my luggage?
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Born west of Pittsburgh Pa. 10 years
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[nq:1]For some reason, I got to thinking about the word "windows". Windows can either be a plural noun, such as Windows overlooking the sea, or a singular noun, such as the Windows operating system.[/nq]
Some might take issue with "Windows" (the operating system) being a noun, at least in the "Scrabble" sense. That's a "proper noun", whereas "windows" is a regular plural. In effect, they aren'
Some might take issue with "Windows" (the operating system) being a noun, at least in the "Scrabble" sense. That's a "proper noun", whereas "windows" is a regular plural. In effect, they aren'
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[nq:2]Hi, For some reason, I got to thinking about the ... only one I've come up with so far is windows.[/nq]
[nq:1]Moose[/nq]
Lots of words depending on context. In a troop of horse, everyone rides a horse. In a fleet of twenty sail, each of the twenty ships has sails. If a stand of arms has three muskets then there are sixty in twenty stand of arms.
Three thousand head of sheep will
[nq:1]Moose[/nq]
Lots of words depending on context. In a troop of horse, everyone rides a horse. In a fleet of twenty sail, each of the twenty ships has sails. If a stand of arms has three muskets then there are sixty in twenty stand of arms.
Three thousand head of sheep will
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[nq:1] "Windows sucks." One sure mark of a non-native speaker would be this sentence about the Microsoft operating system: "Windows suck." (Fine sentiment; lousy usage.)[/nq]
Sometimes, in such context, the word "Windows" is used to refer to all variants of Microsoft's Windows OS. But I may be wrong.
Ayaz Ahmed Khan
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
Sometimes, in such context, the word "Windows" is used to refer to all variants of Microsoft's Windows OS. But I may be wrong.
Ayaz Ahmed Khan
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
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