Comments for Mostly English https://nicholasdemarino.com/ Nicholas De Marino types 26 letters over and over again Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:34:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Comment on Tidbits: more than one octopus by Tidbits: a tail of two tails - Mostly English https://nicholasdemarino.com/2023/10/30/tidbits-more-than-one-octopus/#comment-42 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:34:31 +0000 https://nicholasdemarino.com/?p=435#comment-42 […] you can make case for “mouses” à la a similar thought process to how we get “octopuses.” It’s non-standard, but common […]

]]> Comment on Of mice and people by Tidbits: a tail of two tails - Mostly English https://nicholasdemarino.com/2023/09/18/of-mice-and-people/#comment-35 Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:39:02 +0000 https://nicholasdemarino.com/?p=387#comment-35 […] I already wrote about this once, but I recently woke up in the middle of a lesson and heard myself telling a student that it’s “mouses” for computer mice. […]

]]> Comment on There’s something fishy about that by Of mice and people - Mostly English https://nicholasdemarino.com/2023/04/03/theres-something-fishy-about-that/#comment-12 Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:11:48 +0000 https://nicholasdemarino.com/?p=90#comment-12 […] there are words — mostly for ungulates — whose singular and plural forms are (in most instances) the same, like fish, deer, sheep, moose, elk, reindeer, […]

]]> Comment on Good bad advice by It's a stretch, but … - Mostly English https://nicholasdemarino.com/2023/06/20/good-bad-advice/#comment-10 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 18:52:24 +0000 https://nicholasdemarino.com/?p=281#comment-10 […] Additionally, try using a learner’s dictionary in the target language. (Note: This isn’t fun, and I don’t do it myself — but I should, and so should you.) […]

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