For me, a tree has leaves, but a salad has leafs. The Toronto Maple Leafs team individual players are Maple Leafs. I am confident in (mis)using grammar in this way but wondering if other people do it too?
For me, a tree has leaves, but a salad has leafs. The Toronto Maple Leafs team individual players are Maple Leafs. I am confident in (mis)using grammar in this way but wondering if other people do it too?
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valar@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 40d
For me it's always leaves, except for the sports team because that is a proper noun and they made it that way.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 40d
That makes sense! It's probably how most people use it. So when you are talking about the individual leaves in your salad, you would say leaves. To me the are salad leafs.
I think I also leaf through the pages of a book, if that's related.
valar@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 40d
Oh that's a good point, in verb form it could also be leafs ("she leafs through the pages")
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 40d
So leaves is a noun and leafs is a verb? So what is it that the Toronto Maple leafs thru? A book? A fat wad of cash, maybe?
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 39d
they leaf it all in the rink
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 39d
Who's "they" in this context? The Toronto Maple sounds like a single tree.
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 39d
it's
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 39d
IDK who's downvoting you, I'm upvoting this is fun!
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 40d
That's what I was missing!! Thanks :D
MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 16 pts · 40d
Leaves are for photosynthesis.
For Canadians who hate the Toronto Maple Leafs and their fans, Leafs is a source of schadenfeude.
lung@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 40d
Sometimes I see a flock of Nissan Leafs outside playing in the dirt
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 40d
Another good one!
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 40d
Because they are named after a singular Maple Leaf they are all Maple Leafs. Like people that play for the Oilers are Oilers and not Oileronians.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 40d
Makes sense!
Mac@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 40d
Leafs: hockey team
Leaves: someone making an exit
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 40d
Finally a solution to Eats, Shoots, and Leafs.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 40d
True
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 39d
I call them the Maple leaves just to piss off their chronically sad fans.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 40d
Plants have leaves and Toronto has Leafs.
portifornia@piefed.social · 4 pts · 40d
This leaves a stain in my brain.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 40d
One is Canadians. The other are ex marijuana smokers
Godric@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 39d
Leaves: Fall every autumn, beautiful greens to oranges, bring joy to everyone
Leafs: Fail every spring, blue and white, bring joy to all hockey fans except their own
merde@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 40d
leafs is confusing for me 🤷
i see this in my dictionary ☞
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 40d
Huh i never came across this usage before, good to know!
For me it's more like a tree has many leaves, but I can collect 5 leafs off the ground.
I am aware that this is Wrong. It just seems like a distinction to me about whether there are a vast generalized amount of leaves or a smaller, countable number of leafs.
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 39d
thats cool keep your distinction its a fun quirk to hold
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 40d
No, but patronize and patronize are pronounced very differently based on context.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 39d
How so?
I thought it was pronounced the same whether or not you're visiting their restaurant, or making a big deal about it because you think it is beneath you.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 39d
Don't patronize me. Now did you patronize the bar or not?
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 40d
Make like a tree and leaf!
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 40d
I thought it was "get
the helloutta here!"DmMacniel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 40d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rze0XkDUqQ
leaf@meowing.twink.men · 2 pts · 34d
leafs is my username somewhere :neofox_baa:
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
simples, leafs is failure to reference, leaves is multiple leafs
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 32d
What is failure to reference, hobbits?
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 31d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_to_refer