You know those little shots of creamer they serve at the diner? (Intergalactic House of Pancakes, in this case).
Half-and-halves? Half-and-halfs?
You know those little shots of creamer they serve at the diner? (Intergalactic House of Pancakes, in this case).
Half-and-halves? Half-and-halfs?
17 Comments
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 129d
The contents are innumerable. This is like asking what the plural of water is. The container, however, is numerable. You already answered your own question "little shots of creamer". You enumerated the containers: "shots"
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
If you sat at a table, and wanted water for each person, you would ask for "waters". The container is implied.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
Nah, the orders themselves are numerable. "How many orders of water do you want?" That you colloquially shorten it to "waters" is irrelevant. Even if you needed to order by volume, you would ask for UNITs (liter, gallon, barrel, etc.) of water.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d
You also colloquially shorten it to half and halfs.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 129d
It's already plural, like pants.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 127d
And by that, I'm changing to pantaloonae.
kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 129d
I'll half what she's half-and-halfing
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 129d
In a restaurant setting, creamers.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 129d
More half and half
ProfessorScience@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
Half ands half.
elvith@feddit.org · 2 pts · 129d
half-and-half = 0.5 + 0.5 = 1
two half-and-half(s) = (0.5 + 0.5) × 2 = 1 × 2 = 2
three half-and-half(s) = (0.5 + 0.5) × 3 = 1 × 2 = 3
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BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 3 pts · 129d
???
1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4
elvith@feddit.org · 2 pts · 129d
Argh, I meant + and then did a copy and paste error
It's half AND half, not half TIMES half after all
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 129d
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_and_half
MrWrinkles@leminal.space · 1 pts · 129d
Found it in Wiktionary, thanks! Bookmarking that.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 127d
Half-and-halfae.
About the 3rd or 4th I came up with.
I'm sticking with that.
Half-and-halfae.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 129d
Halves.