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  • grammatical number - Use of the word beeves - English Language . . .
    But beeves seems to refer to countable animals that are intended to be sold for slaughter at the end of the drive Another notable thing about both excerpts is that, despite multiple mentions of beeves, they never use the term beef (singular) to mean a live cow or ox That does happen, however, in Laban S Records, Cherokee Outlet Cowboy (1937):
  • grammatical number - Plural of beef Wellington - English Language . . .
    In this case, "some beeves Wellington" and "some beefs Wellington" give zero results in a Google search, compared to a loosely estimated 133,000 results for "some beef Wellington " So while there are some specialized situations where beef may adopt a plural (ABC Radio), beef Wellington follows the usual pattern for the uncountable beef
  • Origin of the slang AmE and BrE usage of beef
    Beef rhymes with Thief Beeves (archaic) rhymes with Thieves Imagine a bustling market day In the narrow streets, a neighborhood pickpocket weaves through the crowd, pursued by a stranger shouting, "Stop! Thief!" Imagine that none too few persons in the market know the thief, or consider themselves bound to him by common interest
  • american english - Meaning of The Lord is on our side - English . . .
    The Lord is on our side—When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn—We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves
  • Singular to plural noun - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    beef to beeves (or beefs) calf to calves corf to corves dwarf to dwarves (but only in Tolkein) elf to elves half to halves hoof to hooves leaf to leaves loaf to loaves ourself to ourselves scarf to scarves (or scarfs) self to selves sheaf to sheaves staff to staves or (staffs) shelf to shelves themself to themselves thief to thieves wharf to
  • What does gotcha mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    Gotcha actually has several meanings All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely " [I have] got you" Literally, from the sense of got = "caught, obtained", it means "I've caught you" As in, you were falling, and I caught you, or you were running, and I grabbed you It's a short step from the benign type of caught to the red-handed type of caught
  • Where, when, and how did the term dogie for orphan calf originate?
    Another implied invitation to earn money, at the expense of honesty an the bona fide owner, was discovered in the loose manner of selling beeves A man often assumes an "agency" for men living at a distance, and proceeds forthwith to sell their beeves indiscriminately with his own
  • Why is fish the plural of fish? [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
    Even if you said cow not beef, it would still be singular (And the less said about beeves, the better :) So fish, just like so many other nouns of its ilk, found itself being used as a collective singular, thus a mass noun, which therefore took no plural in that context
  • Instable or unstable? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    From my experience, it seems that although unstable is more commonly used, instable is often preferred in engineering and scientific contexts, e g "aircraft instability", "instable algorithm" Are
  • Need be vs. Needs to be [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
    I can hardly say the word need be used, since that's 395 written instances without it But Google Books claims to have 1,140 instances pointing out that the word needs to be used Without to, it seems rather dated to me





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