Leafs - Leaves

Bartholomew · Jan 8, 2007

They both exist in the dictionary; if I'm submitting a story to a U.S. rag, would I be better off saying Leafs, or Leaves? o.o

alleycat · Jan 8, 2007

leaves

MidnightMuse · Jan 8, 2007

I don't think I've ever seen Leafs. Ever. Can't find it in my little desk-side dictionairy (that's not to say it isn't in a dictionairy, though).

giftedrhonda · Jan 8, 2007

I've never seen leafs, either.

Del · Jan 8, 2007

I think leafs might be meant as a verb, a plant leafs annually or leafs into bloom. Leaves is plural for leaf.

Bartholomew · Jan 8, 2007

Yep. Ok, I found an entry. Leafs is a verb, Leaves is a noun.

Thanks guys!

alleycat · Jan 8, 2007

MidnightMuse said:
I don't think I've ever seen Leafs.

You must have heard of the Maple Leafs.

;-)

Jamesaritchie · Jan 8, 2007

Leafs

Bartholomew said:
They both exist in the dictionary; if I'm submitting a story to a U.S. rag, would I be better off saying Leafs, or Leaves? o.o

Both are words, but they should have different definitions. "Leaves" is the plural of "leaf," but a tree "leafs." A man also "leafs" through a book.

Judg · Jan 8, 2007

alleycat said:
You must have heard of the Maple Leafs.

;-)

Ah yes, but that is following another rule, the one that says that proper nouns are invariable. When one Altman meets another, you have two Altmans, not two Altmen. And when you have one blue-jerseyed hockey player beside another on the same perennially losing team, you have two Maple Leafs, not two Maple Leaves.

I hope my Number 4 son does not read this thread, ardent Leaf fan that he is. Mind you, he's not much of a reader... Do you think the two facts have any causal relationship?

hehehe

veinglory · Jan 8, 2007

Indeed, one 'leafs' through a book.

truelyana · Jan 8, 2007

This is a very interesting thread because, sometimes i get this with words in general, and pronounciations. It's interesting that, there are similiar looking words meaning different things.

alleycat · Jan 8, 2007

Judg said:
Ah yes, but that is following another rule, the one that says that proper nouns are invariable.

Actually, it was following the rule of trying to be funny to MidnightMuse.

Anonymous Traveler · Jan 10, 2007

alleycat said:
You must have heard of the Maple Leafs.

Let's hear it for how expansion ruined hockey. Do you remember the original six and when the Leafs won Lord Stanley's little trinket? And the Habs were unbeatable?

Has anyone noticed how the Google Adds mirror the topic, Hmmmm

Chumplet · Jan 10, 2007

alleycat said:
You must have heard of the Maple Leafs.

;-)

You beat me to it, Alleycat. Except instead of calling them the Maple Leafs, we're calling them the Make Beliefs these days. Go Habs!

stevejohnson · Jan 10, 2007

alleycat said:
You must have heard of the Maple Leafs.

;-)

AC, he said he had never SEEN leafs. Wrong sense (or is it cents? scents? since?)

KTC · Jan 11, 2007

As others have pointed out, unless you're talking about the Maple Leafs, I would use leaves. I too call them the Make Beliefs. Drives my Leaf loving son to tears sometimes! Go HABS, GO!!!!!!!!!!

Leafs - Leaves

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MidnightMuse

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Del

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Judg

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truelyana

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Chumplet

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