Comments | nickglass: A vital question of grammatical proportions.

nickglass

A vital question of grammatical proportions.

Jun 21, 2005 19:42

What is the singular form of the rotund candy/mints know as 'Mentos'. Is it 'mento' or 'mentos'? Is it 'mentos' in the singular AND plural form, like 'deer ( Read more... )

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theglassbaumer June 22 2005, 02:55:37 UTC

Mentos both ways sounds good...That reminds me of a bit of childhood. I was in Islands of Adventure in Orlando with my cousin and we were both pretty high off the roller coasters and stopped over in the Dr. Seuss island of the park and bought an icee drink called "Moose Juice." We started debating the plural form of it: "It would be like geese; meese!"

nickglass June 22 2005, 05:00:07 UTC

The plural form of moose is moose, right? Sounds like a case of the 'mentos'.

theglassbaumer June 22 2005, 19:28:41 UTC

Yup, the English language is rather odd.

now i have that damn jingle in my head.. catch22ryes June 22 2005, 07:20:35 UTC

yeah i really think its mentos no matter how many you are talkign about.

bronsonbeliever June 23 2005, 07:53:53 UTC

Well, while you wouldn't ask anyone "do you have a Snicker?", most people would probably say "can I have just ONE Skittle?" would be gramatically correct. Then again, in the case of Starburst, I don't think the term "Starbursts" would be incorrect.

It's a crazy world we live in.

nickglass June 23 2005, 17:42:45 UTC

Exactly!

Why can't all candy products stick to a grammatical paradigm? Luckily, I don't eat candy much -- so I seldom run into this problem. How do fat people deal with this?