Monkies and Monkeys (was Re: conculture)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 11:56 |
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, David William McKay wrote:
> nicole wrote:
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> > 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.
Tristan
anstouh@yahoo.com.au
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