Spoilers for Celebrity Countdown - Tuesday 19th November 2019
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:46 pm
It's like they've mixed Countdown with the WWE.
A group for contestants and lovers of the Channel 4 game show 'Countdown'.
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Agreed.Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:56 pm Susie just flat out wrong on CHEERIOS. HELLO and and GOODBYE are nouns, CHEERIO is not.
Why is this? I don't see why CHEERIO isn't/can't be a noun.Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:56 pm Susie just flat out wrong on CHEERIOS. HELLO and and GOODBYE are nouns, CHEERIO is not.
CHEERIO is only in as an exclamation https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/cheerioCallum Todd wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:48 pmWhy is this? I don't see why CHEERIO isn't/can't be a noun.Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:56 pm Susie just flat out wrong on CHEERIOS. HELLO and and GOODBYE are nouns, CHEERIO is not.
Who knows why the dictionary is the way it is, but it's not for Susie to make it up if it's not to anyone's liking.Callum Todd wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:48 pmWhy is this? I don't see why CHEERIO isn't/can't be a noun.Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:56 pm Susie just flat out wrong on CHEERIOS. HELLO and and GOODBYE are nouns, CHEERIO is not.
No, you cannot pluralise exclamations. If it isn't a noun, you can't pluralise it.David Williams wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:28 am Does it say anywhere that you can't pluralise an exclamation? In fact it's being used as a count noun in the example sentence "A big cheerio to Bill, who's not been in the best of health of late." (Haven't watched the programme, so I don't know what was actually said.)
Word types aren't transitive, synonyms of words do not automatically share word types.
If you could pluralise it, it would be a noun. That's true basically by definition. Not a noun = no plural. Sure, something can be an exclamation and a noun, but it should be listed as such.David Williams wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:40 am It may be your (and my) opinion that you can't pluralise an exclamation, but the point at issue is where this is laid down. And the usage in the example sentence could be pluralised. On balance I agree with you, but I'm not seeing quite enough to overrule the onfield decision.
It doesn't need to be. There would need to be a rule somewhere to say that you can pluralise exclamations. Why would all the (part of speech, inflection) combinations that aren't allowed be listed explicitly, when it would be much simpler to list the ones that are allowed?David Williams wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:40 am It may be your (and my) opinion that you can't pluralise an exclamation, but the point at issue is where this is laid down.
Which example sentence?And the usage in the example sentence could be pluralised. On balance I agree with you, but I'm not seeing quite enough to overrule the onfield decision.