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Pretty Flaco
18th April 2012, 01:16
i was just sort of curious, but what's it called when people add plural endings to words that are already plural? sometimes i catch myself doing this but i never noticed it until people here in the midwest pointed it out.
examples:

you guyses (guys) <--- used to hear this a lot
the copses (cops)
a bunch a fakeses (fakes)
etc

The Jay
18th April 2012, 01:17
It's called bad grammar, seriously.

Vyacheslav Brolotov
18th April 2012, 01:19
Why would anyone do that?

Comrade Samuel
18th April 2012, 01:20
Jeff Dunham?

Pretty Flaco
18th April 2012, 01:20
no fucking shit. but even incorrect grammar has a term for it.
like adding swear words in the middle of sentences where they don't make any sense is called an intensifier.

i just want to know what to call it!

Ele'ill
18th April 2012, 01:35
http://copiosa.org/Lord_Rings_images/gollum2.jpg

Bostana
18th April 2012, 02:37
Jeff Dunham?

It's Dun-Ham

Bostana
18th April 2012, 02:38
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/image.php?groupid=1422&dateline=1302175611

Comrade Samuel
18th April 2012, 02:42
It's Dun-Ham

Could of sworn it was je-fuh-fuh as well. I honestly feel a little ridiculace for referenceing such a stupid and childish comedian in the first place.

Pretty Flaco
18th April 2012, 03:23
yous guyses is a bunch a fuckin fucks

Agent Ducky
18th April 2012, 03:50
http://copiosa.org/Lord_Rings_images/gollum2.jpg

Exactly my thoughtses.....

Railyon
18th April 2012, 08:54
Youse lot gone done it!

Pretty Flaco
19th April 2012, 03:44
Exactly my thoughtses.....

no not like that!

"hey is this bike yours's?"

theres another example.

Trap Queen Voxxy
19th April 2012, 04:40
no not like that!

"hey is this bike yours's?"

theres another example.

Tricksy hobbitses pickin at your grammar.

Lobotomy
19th April 2012, 17:36
Why do british people say 'maths'?

ColonelCossack
19th April 2012, 20:16
Why do british people say 'maths'?

"mathematics"

Leonid Brozhnev
19th April 2012, 20:47
Why do british people say 'maths'?

To confuse Americans