Teaspoon

[Benjamin Torbert]

I do still read "passersby" a lot.

I think I remember an anecdote or joke or something about William Safire
insisting on "tacos supreme" instead of "taco supremes" w/r/t Taco Bell.

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> My money is on -fuls winning out.
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> Handful, pocketful and the rest _tend to_ have a stilted sound when the
> "s" is in the middle, and I think that form will just dwindle away.
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> Passerbys gets a respectable number of Googits, too.
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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> On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Benjamin Torbert <btorbert at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > Which of these sounds more natural to y'all?  As a plural.
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> > a) Teaspoonsful
> > b) Teaspoonfuls
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