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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:04 pm
by free5ty1e
Man I gotta go to one of these events. D'they have em every year up there or do they move? We've got a dirt circle track in Elko... anyone up for taking it over with Legacies? (Damn it, isn't it "i" before "e" but except after "c"? Legaceis? Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ (I'm sorry, JTDC -- if this didn't belong in the ashtray I would submit that one to the technical acronym sticky)
Legacys still doesn't look as right to me as Legacies, grammar rules notwithstanding. Or am I forgetting some other strange unworldly English grammar rule here? Laurel? Or do you just do spelling?
I'm going to stop now.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:10 am
by Legacy777
The i before e rule is just a general rule, it doesn't always hold true.
The plural of Legacy is Legacies
The posessive of Legacy is Legacy's
Or the posessive plural of Legacy is Legacys'
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:20 am
by Splinter
I thought the -ies suffix didnt apply to proper nouns?
the plural of Legacy being Legacys.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:28 am
by Legacy777
I'd have to double check about that.....but I've never really seen the word legacys out there as just a plural for legacy.....
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:02 am
by entirelyturbo
Josh is right on two accounts.
[nerd]
The correct word is Legacies (defying the i before e rule, regardless of the proper usage), but the possessive plural of Legacy is still Legacies', just like Legacies without an apostrophe...
[/nerd]
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:29 am
by wiscon_mark
I still think Legacys just looks better, and therefore use it
But Mike is right.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:05 am
by Subtle
One treasury bond is written as treasury.
On more than one, The Wall Street Journal writes it as treasurys.
Other newspapers use treasuries.
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:37 am
by SuperRallyRoo
It musta been cause you drove all the way from canada lol. Next year... I'm doing one of those poster things that show my mods and my injurys doing those mods. And I'm going to win.
