Pluralia Tantum

palooka commented on the list plurale-tantum

Cool list. Must have taken time to research.

June 6, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Thanks, palooka. Glad to hear it looks that impressive. ;-) Actually, most of these popped into my head in one big . . . pop. Mostly the clothing-related ones. Have you noticed how many of them there are?

June 7, 2007

trivet commented on the list plurale-tantum

Fun! Must be cause we've got all those arms and legs...

Guts, covers, groceries, outskirts, cahoots?

June 7, 2007

trivet commented on the list plurale-tantum

and bygones!

June 7, 2007

uselessness commented on the list plurale-tantum

Don't forget about scruples!

June 7, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Oooh, great ones! Thanks, you guys!

June 7, 2007

jennarenn commented on the list plurale-tantum

Good collection. I almost couldn't find it in the cloud of hyperlinks that your lists comprise.

July 25, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Thanks! I can't find anything up there either. It's huge!

July 25, 2007

sionnach commented on the list plurale-tantum

marginalia? doldrums? braces (in the sense of suspenders)? banns? abs? pecs? hustings? chitterlings? cornflakes? rice crispies? hominy grits? conniptions? heebie-jeebies? bollocks? vicissitudes?

December 19, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Wow! Thanks, sionnach! Think I'll leave out the brand name, though. And I hear "conniption" relatively often, but I think it's far less common than the plural, so it's added. :-)

December 19, 2007

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

If a person dies but you didn't really like them, can you extend just a condolence?

December 19, 2007

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

Now that I think about it I've never heard conniption in the plural form. In Australia the typical use would be something like "John Player had a conniption after he three-putted the last hole."

December 19, 2007

sionnach commented on the list plurale-tantum

oodles? fries? bean- or brussels sprouts? baked beans? sneakers? fatigues? dogtags? skittles? cremains? knickerbockers, knickers

other possibilities, though less compelling: onlookers, tommyknockers (I don't really know what these are), plus-fours, bloomers

December 19, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Oh, all right, sionnach--go on, share the list! You're coming up with more than I have, anyway! :-D

Bilby, condolences is a great one. Thanks! I've heard "conniption" used mostly in the phrase "conniption fits," which seems redundant to me.

December 19, 2007

sionnach commented on the list plurale-tantum

Cool! Thanks r_t. My first shared list. I'm psyched. Which probably means that my ideas will immediately dry up.

December 20, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Well, it's not going anywhere so you can always return later.

Cooties?? Haha!

December 20, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Oh, by the way--more on tommyknockers. Scary little buggers, especially if you're a miner.

December 20, 2007

rolig commented on the list plurale-tantum

An obvious one: scissors. Doesn't that fit the specs for this list?

December 20, 2007

rolig commented on the list plurale-tantum

And then who can forget genitals and genitalia?

December 20, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Odd, rolig. I was sure I'd added scissors....Yes, it's the first word on the list. They're not all showing on the first page now that sionnach has gone bonkers. ;-)

December 20, 2007

rolig commented on the list plurale-tantum

Oops, I didn't notice page 2.

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

I'm wondering if eunuchs can forget genitals. Or whether ...

December 20, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Hey there! This list will not devolve into a cojones-fest, I tell you. We already have one of those. ;-)

December 20, 2007

sionnach commented on the list plurale-tantum

Now r_t, no need to get exercised. One set of cojones does not a festival make.

Besides, you were the one who listed bollocks.

Knee-slapping guffaw!

December 20, 2007

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Exercise? Who said anything about exercise? I don't believe in that nonsense. ;-)

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

Kudos for this list.

January 5, 2008

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

How could I have missed that one? Thanks, bilby.

January 7, 2008

sionnach commented on the list plurale-tantum

reesetee: What are your thoughts about battlements? And I have an idea that emoluments are generally plural, but nothing to back this up.

January 7, 2008

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

I'd say they're both worthy additions, sionnach. :-)

January 7, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list plurale-tantum

Spaghetti.

April 11, 2008

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

I suppose you could put almost all the pasta types. Unless reesetee massacres one macarone at a time.

April 11, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list plurale-tantum

Of (first) course. I typed spaghetti because we discussed about that in the spaghetti alla bolognese page.

April 11, 2008

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Let's just let spaghetti stand for all the other pastas, then. (Al dente, of course.)

April 11, 2008

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

You don't necessarily have to have lots of spaghetti. Italians will often invite you to have just two ... wouldn't that be one each?

April 11, 2008

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Yes, but a spaghetto always leaves me hungry for more. ;->

April 11, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list plurale-tantum

Yes, se famo du' spaghi*...

(* "Let's have two spaghetti" in Roman dialect)

April 11, 2008

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

Airs and graces.

April 11, 2008

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

arrears?

August 20, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list plurale-tantum

There you go again.

;)

(BIG WINK, JUST KIDDING, PLEASE LAUGH, LOVE YOU BILBY.)

August 20, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list plurale-tantum

Pants!

Oh, and trousers.

Edit: also alumni?

August 20, 2008

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Pants! and trousers are already hanging in the closet. :-) I don't know about alumni, though. Aren't alumna and alumnus used fairly frequently too?

Arrears--of course! Thanks, bilby.

August 20, 2008

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

Shurrup, battlebutt!

August 20, 2008

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Well, that's not a plural. . . .

August 20, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list plurale-tantum

*wags battlebutt at bilby*

Reesetee, unfortunately, I hear all too often people using alumni to mean anything from alumnus, alumna, alumnae, and of course alumni. The usage isn't correct, but it's very common. I don't often hear/see alumnus or alumna even when that's what's meant. And it seems like nobody even knows what alumnae means.

August 20, 2008

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

But see, that's my point. I'm not going to perpetuate the nonsense. Hmph.

August 20, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list plurale-tantum

Oh. Well, okay. :)

August 20, 2008

qroqqa commented on the list plurale-tantum

athletics, chambers (legal), corduroys, doings, hives, insignia, ironworks, mews, secateurs, shingles, statistics

I'd suggest excluding sneakers, since it's not a plurale tantum: you can throw or lose one shoe, boot, sneaker, pump, plimsoll, glove etc., where the pairs are physically separable.

August 21, 2008

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

coffers.

December 12, 2008

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Thanks!

December 13, 2008

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

In the movie 'Malcolm', the protagonist's getaway car splits in two so the police don't know which half to follow. I presume that if the either of the two bits stalled it would only take a jumper cable to get it going. But that's a special case :-)

April 4, 2009

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Plus I'm entirely unsure of how I could add that to this list. ;-)

April 5, 2009

plethora commented on the list plurale-tantum

Nachos?

April 28, 2009

sionnach commented on the list plurale-tantum

To think that once I could take pride in sharing the stewardship of this list with reesetee. But now, there's new management, and my status has apparently reverted to that of chopped liver.

Not that I blame reesetee, who has apparently succumbed to a more sinister fate, to be replaced by some kind of bot-creature known as Reese Tee.

This is the brave new world that technological advancement brings.

February 27, 2010

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Apologies--I'd add you back in, but then I'd have to let anyone, anyone at all back in too. ;-)

Do you believe it? This Reese Tee...creature took over when I couldn't manage to get my *real* name set up. Hmph.

*takes fake umbrage, throws it cupcake-like at own profile*

February 27, 2010

Dan337 commented on the list plurale-tantum

This is lovely. I know it’s a mere trivium ​sic, but shouldn’t the list be called “pluralia tantum”?

January 29, 2011

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Glad you're enjoying it. I suppose you're right--the name should be changed. Thanks for pointing that out. :-)

January 29, 2011

sionnach commented on the list plurale-tantum

Fortunately I still have visitation rights, even if custody has been grabbed by this Reese Tee entity.

Sniff! What about the hideous jeggings?

January 30, 2011

PossibleUnderscore commented on the list plurale-tantum

Those things should be made illegal.

January 30, 2011

Dan337 commented on the list plurale-tantum

(reesetee: Thanks. It was setting off my irony detector.)

January 30, 2011

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

:-)

January 30, 2011

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Sorry, sionnach. I've been waiting and waiting for the old settings to be restored....

But just for you, I'll add the hideous jeggings.

January 30, 2011

Wordplayer commented on the list plurale-tantum

jougs spectacles waterworks bystanders recesses(as of the mind) shears bacteria criteria data agenda candelabra algae panini paparazzi graffiti opera

February 1, 2011

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

tenterhooks

April 9, 2011

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Thanks, bilby!

April 9, 2011

mollusque commented on the list plurale-tantum

Butterfingers!

April 27, 2011

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

No thanks, mollusque. I've had dessert.

Oh, wait....

April 27, 2011

mollusque commented on the list plurale-tantum

monkeyshines . . .

April 27, 2011

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

withers

April 27, 2011

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Good ones. :-)

April 27, 2011

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

smallgoods

June 18, 2011

reesetee commented on the list plurale-tantum

Never heard that one before--but duly added. Thanks.

June 18, 2011

chrissykp commented on the list plurale-tantum

shenanigans

September 22, 2012

bilby commented on the list plurale-tantum

fiddlesticks!

December 22, 2013

danama commented on the list plurale-tantum

mores

in children's play there's cops and robbers, and cowboys and indians (although the latter game, if played at all, may go by another name now).

December 22, 2013

wicklif commented on the list plurale-tantum

Great list! Not sure this is still active, but you could add estovers too.

November 14, 2022

wicklif commented on the list plurale-tantum

Bitts could be another one

November 27, 2022