Re: Monkies and Monkeys (was Re: conculture)

From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, David William McKay wrote:
>
> > nicole wrote:
> >
> > > it
> > > is monkeys not monkies as some people seem to think...
> > > i looked it up
>
> [Note: the Internet is notorious for not delivering emails in order]
>
> Yeah, that's a basic rule of English spelling: you change a Y to I before
> pluralising or third person presentifying with an ES unless the letter
> before it was a vowel: try>tries but day>days, not daies. But you must
> admit that 'monkies' looks so much better than 'monkeys', especially when
> you abandon capital letters in the process.
A lot of people want to spell it "monky" anyway, so they're probably all the
worse off. :p
Although it's not so grave a sin as "chipmonk".

    *Muke!

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