Word trivia: Plural words made singular by adding "y". 6

[SantaMufasa]

This contest is to identify plural words that you make singular by adding the letter "y".

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)

http://www.dasages.com

@ 23:59 (29Nov04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 16:59 (29Nov04) Mountain Time

 

[DrJavaJoe]

[white]ladies, armies, babies[/white]

Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Sorry, Dr. Java. The rule on this game is start with a plural word and just add the letter "y" to make it singular. If you add a "y" to "ladies", you get "ladiesy" or "yladies", neither of which works.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)

http://www.dasages.com

@ 00:11 (30Nov04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 17:11 (29Nov04) Mountain Time

 

[lbass]

[white]ours->yours
[/white]

-LB

 

[Lothario]

[white]armor, armory

advisor, advisory[/white]

-L

 

[Lothario]

[white]ash, ashy

beam, beamy[/white]

-L

 

[SantaMufasa]

LBass gets a star for going plural to singular by adding a "y". If I open up the candidate words to include proper nouns, can someone think of another?

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)

http://www.dasages.com

@ 04:28 (30Nov04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 21:28 (29Nov04) Mountain Time

 

[ChrisHunt]

[white]and -> Andy ?[/white]

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[SantaMufasa]

Chris,

Nice attempt...but...No: must start plural and go singular by adding "y". If I could, you would receive a 2.5-pointed star.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)

http://www.dasages.com

@ 18:10 (30Nov04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 11:10 (30Nov04) Mountain Time

 

[Lothario]

[white]ourself->yourself[/white]

-L

 

[SantaMufasa]

Lothario,

Another nice attempt, but it must be grammatically correct to count: unless we are talking about StarTrek's Borg or HRH Queen Elizabeth (a sovereign),

[white]"ourself" is incorrect; it must be "ourselves" to be plural; "ourself" is singular,[/white]

thus lying outside the qualifications for this particular situation. Great effort, however !

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)

http://www.dasages.com

@ 18:34 (30Nov04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu&quot,
@ 11:34 (30Nov04) Mountain Time

 

[cLFlaVA]

[white]all : ally
[/white]

*cLFlaVA
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[DrJavaJoe]

[white]Would bulk and bulky qualify?[/white]

Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[CajunCenturion]

[COLOR=white white]geodes - geodesy[/color]

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[CajunCenturion]

[COLOR=white white]drops - dropsy
fora - foray[/color]

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[DrJavaJoe]

I got it.

[white]Tips and Tipsy

or

Tek-Tips and Tek-Tipsy
[/white]

Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[CajunCenturion]

DrJavaJoe -

[COLOR=white white]Is tipsy a noun?  Can you have just one of them.  :-)[/color]

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[DrJavaJoe]

CajunCenturion

If I could have just one I wouldn't be Tipsy

Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[ESquared]

[white]Regarding ours -> yours,
'Yours' is only singular and plural because English has dropped the singular thou, thee, thy, thine. 'Yours' otherwise would retain its exclusively plural nature. For that matter, even in modern English it's not exclusively singular![/white]

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[cLFlaVA]

[white]pans : pansy[/white]

*cLFlaVA
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