Timeline for What is the Plural of WordPress?
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| Dec 4, 2012 at 21:05 | comment | added | Ray Gulick | Funniest thing I've seen here in a while: "Like Jesus, just more rules." | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 11:51 | vote | accept | brasofilo | ||
| Nov 29, 2012 at 11:15 | comment | added | Johannes Pille | You guys pretty much had me convinced in the first place. Still, I wanted a definitive answer and hence asked this (in broader terms!) on English Language & Usage. Apart from the fact that it earned me 2 downvotes and a load of comments over there, the final answer completely agrees with toscho (and to a lesser extent with the "Pepsi"-notion). Hence @brasofilo this one ought to defo be accepted as correct. | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 9:13 | history | edited | fuxia♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2012 at 7:43 | history | edited | fuxia♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2012 at 4:13 | comment | added | brasofilo | @userabuser , yes, the Question had ramifications, it might well end up in higher echelons... | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 3:08 | comment | added | Adam | @brasofilo Hey Sue Says? When you figure that one out let me know :) | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 3:04 | comment | added | brasofilo | Adding a sister site in the mix, in Spain and Latin America (except Brasil), Jesus can be a persons' name. Now I need to know how do we call a bunch of them together :P -but I guess toscho's principle should sustain... | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 2:52 | comment | added | Adam | @JohannesPille You can phrase it like that if you want, but its still incorrect. If you want "two cans of Pepsi", you would say, "hey busboy, two Pepsi please!" no "s". Just like "I have five WordPress on my server" would be the correct form of the expression, no "es". Sure that's harder to digest but you'd normally say "I have five WordPress installations on my server" or something similar that indicates the plural form. Trademark or not, that's irrelevant. Some words and names just can't bastardized like we do with everything else in the English language :) | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 2:31 | comment | added | Johannes Pille | Sure thing. If I use "Two Pepsis" synonymically for "Two bottles of", that certainly is not optimal, but would work, maybe not written, but when spoken or quoted, right?! If that was the case, then could "I run five installations of WordPress on my server" not be expressed as "I have five WordPresses on my server"? Sure it ain't physical, but it would be five distinct instances of the same thing, no? | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 2:24 | comment | added | fuxia♦ | @JohannesPille Pepsi as the name of the company has no plural; the drink is a physical object, not a collection of … ideas. | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 2:22 | comment | added | Johannes Pille | +1. But is it? Is a trademark a singular without a plural per se? "Pepsi" for instance is a trademark. And granted, it would be better to say "Two bottles of Pepsi, please!", but can't I ask the waiter for "Two Pepsis"? | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 2:19 | comment | added | brasofilo | Uau, I mean, wow, that was deep. And definitely. I think so. I guess. Goood. | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 2:16 | history | answered | fuxia♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |