Talk:sandwichs
I've never seen this plural in English. How does one even pronounce it? Equinox ◑ 14:23, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
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I couldnt find evidence of this being an alternate form or even a common misspelling. The word is sandwiches and I see no reason for an exception to our spelling rules to exist for just this one word. Search results are primarily for sandwich's (the possessive) and documents that have French and English text mixed. There are many search results that seem to be difficult to identify but the highlighted text appears in none of them, so I suspect they don't contain the requested word. There may be more such plurals at this link but browsing through it nothing jumped out at me as being a /tš/ plural (that is, they all looked like words ending in /ks/). —Soap— 14:02, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
- It looks wrong to me too. That spelling cannot really indicate a three-syllable word. Equinox ◑ 16:00, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
- I have cited this and labelled it as "proscribed," since I highly doubt it is accepted by any style guide and it seemed to mainly occur in poorly edited works. I included two uses of the word in each cite to help demonstrate the fact that these are not typos (the cited authors did not use the spelling "sandwiches" alongside the spelling in question). I believe this spelling comes from the fact that English speakers learn to pluralize words with "-es" if they end in S, but are not always clear on when else they should do so. I remember puzzling over the spelling of "sandwiches" myself when I was younger. The pronunciation would be no different (I'll add it to the entry). Andrew Sheedy (talk) 16:46, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Soap Just a tip for searching: if you use a minus sign/hyphen before a word, you can eliminate the "synonymous" results that Google unhelpfully includes. I found my cites with '"the sandwichs" -sandwiches' ("the" (or various English pronouns) to eliminate the French results, "-sandwiches" to eliminate the regular plurals). Andrew Sheedy (talk) 17:00, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
RFV-resolved This, that and the other (talk) 05:02, 29 November 2023 (UTC)