{"id":1205,"date":"2016-03-12T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T11:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2016-03-22T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:04:50","slug":"unusual-pluralizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/03\/12\/unusual-pluralizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Pluralizations"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Quartermasters General’. ‘Quarterpounders with cheese’. Some time ago, we talked about unusual long form names<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, we talk about unusual pluralizations.<\/p>\n

You’re probably familiar with pluralizing ‘Quartermaster General’ to ‘Quartermasters General[1]’, and ‘Quarterpounder with cheese’ to ‘Quarterpounders with cheese’, but are you familiar with the pluralization of ‘Foot Locker’? How about ‘Head cheese[2]’?<\/p>\n

‘Man-of-war’? ‘Attorney General’?<\/p>\n

It’s enough to make mongeese pull their hairtholomew out.<\/p>\n

[1]Not to be confused with the possessive, “Quartermaster’s General”, or the other possessive, “Quartermaster General’s”.<\/p>\n

[2]Not to be confused with the ‘Head Cheese’, who stands alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Quartermasters General’. ‘Quarterpounders with cheese’. Some time ago, we talked about unusual long form names. Today, we talk about unusual pluralizations. You’re probably familiar with pluralizing ‘Quartermaster General’ to ‘Quartermasters General[1]’, and ‘Quarterpounder with cheese’ to ‘Quarterpounders with cheese’, but are you familiar with the pluralization of ‘Foot Locker’? How about ‘Head cheese[2]’? ‘Man-of-war’? ‘Attorney … Continue reading Unusual Pluralizations<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,13,4,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}