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Staff may refer to:

* Staff (stick), a stick or pole to assist with walking, or sometimes used as a weapon
* Staff (building material), artificial stone product used as ornament
* Staff (music), a set of horizontal

Comments

[zenhiao]

staves is correct only for certain meanings. in particular you do not use it when you mean a set of people

[jinfreaks]

Haha... Thanks. Reading the entry again (directly copied from wiki), I guess it does seem that some people might use staves for a set of people.

But since staff is already a referring to a group, I thought it was pretty obvious, assuming they read the other definitions...

[sakura_no_kage]

so staff or staves?

[jinfreaks]

Clerics and mages are using the staves.

The counter staff are busy.

[xiaogou]

lol so wat's all this about?

[jinfreaks]

All this arose from one word: staffs