halfs or halves?
btcollects
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regardless of what's grammatically correct, what looks best?
halfs or halves?
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Either 1 or 2, don't care. Not 3.
Do you spell it fone or phone? Some people still notice.
If you had a bunch of them, and cut each of them into to equal pieces, you'd have twice as many halves as you would have had if you hadn't cut them in half. Of course, that's only half the story of the halves. Let's not even get started with the haves and the have-nots.
No big deal.
As a hockey fan, all I know is that for some reason, it's the Toronto Maple Leafs….
(Even the spell function on these boards say it's wrong!!)
I've been preferring "halfs" as the plural for a while now, along with other -lf and even -f words, so wolfs, calfs, leafs, and so forth. Just a bit a spelling/plural regularization.
(And interesting, Firefox spellcheck recognizes wolfs and leafs as perfectly cromulent words, but not halfs or calfs.)
Ed. S.
(EJS)
Four bits.
HALVES
2 then 1.
Halves work for me..... By the way @Aegis3, what the heck is a 'cromulent'????
Cheers, RickO
I know halves is correct grammatically. But I like to use Half's when selling multiple halves in the same group. Think search engines!
It looks much better when grammatically correct.
I have a half dollar............... I think this is correct as you have one half of a dollar.
Plural would be halfs.
Half is a noun.
Halve is a verb.
I don't think people go around saying, "I have a halve dollar."
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‘Halve’ is a transitive verb.
‘Halves’ is a noun, and a plural to half.
‘Halved’ is a verb.
‘Halving’ is a verb.
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‘Halfs’ isn't a real plural.
‘Halfed’ isn’t a real verb.
‘Halfing’ isn’t a real verb.
People gonna confuse your words, especially calfs.... are we talking cows here?
‘Wolfs’ is a noun and with an apostrophe is possessive.
‘Wolf’ is a noun, or a transitive/intransitive verb depending on sentence.
‘Wolves’ is a noun, and a plural to wolf.
‘Half’s’ is a possessive noun.
True Brit