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I have just read Ken McKenna’s latest posting, as usual full of interesting stuff, but here is a question I have wanted to raise for some time now — and this will bug some of you, who should sign off now…. In recent times, I have grown tired of trying to know when to apply an “s” to make a plural vs. “knowing” which species are best left alone when forming plural numbers. Especially problematic are “snipe” vs. “snipes” or “woodcock” or “teal” etc. etc. I with my “common-sense” rules of grammar have decided to just Anglicize all bird names by adding “s” or “es” to all of them, as some of you have noted when I write “teals”, e.g. What say the rest of you? or does anyone care? Is this important to anyone? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.
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