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 it’s always leaves, except for the sports team because that is a proper noun and they made it that way.
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.
Oh that’s a good point, in verb form it could also be leafs (“she leafs through the pages”)
That’s what I was missing!! Thanks :D
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?
they leaf it all in the rink
Who’s “they” in this context? The Toronto Maple sounds like a single tree.
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IDK who’s downvoting you, I’m upvoting this is fun!
Leaves are for photosynthesis.
For Canadians who hate the Toronto Maple Leafs and their fans, Leafs is a source of schadenfeude.
Sometimes I see a flock of Nissan Leafs outside playing in the dirt
Plants have leaves and Toronto has Leafs.
Leafs: hockey team
Leaves: someone making an exitFinally a solution to Eats, Shoots, and Leafs.
True
I call them the Maple leaves just to piss off their chronically sad fans.
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.
Makes sense!
No, but patronize and patronize are pronounced very differently based on context.
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.
If pat rhymes with hat, you’re visiting the restaurant.
If pat rhymes with hate, the thing is beneath you.
Thanks! TiL i pronounce both of them rhyming with hate
Looks like it’s a regional dialect, this entry shows that sometimes the vowel is changed depending on meaning and sometimes the same vowel is used for both meanings.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/patronize
I think its mostly that I’m far more likely to hear british people use the word to mean looking down on, and americans are more likely to mean be a patron, so I conflated the difference into the meaning. But according to wiktionary I’m not the only one who does that so, maybe not.
Don’t patronize me.
One is Canadians. The other are ex marijuana smokers
This leaves a stain in my brain.
Make like a tree and leaf!
I thought it was “get
the helloutta here!”
leafs is confusing for me 🤷
i see this in my dictionary ☞
(4chan, internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
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.
thats cool keep your distinction its a fun quirk to hold
