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After climbing a flight of stairs, you pant. Pant is a verb
After your morning ablutions you put on your pants. Pants is a noun.
After climbing a flight of stairs, you pant. Pant is a verbis it pants or pant?
After climbing a flight of stairs, you pant. Pant is a verb
After your morning ablutions you put on your pants. Pants is a noun.
A better question than this bellows one is why do some people say "wala" instead of "voila"?
Either, it is because they either have not been told or they don't know any better, but more likely they cannot be bothered to find out. (Or just plain stupid)
Two miss pronunciations that are wrong and commonly used by the television media such as for the word 'secretary', usually come out as 'secetary'. or if talking about the months of the year 'February' is spoken as 'Febary'. My mother who taught English would turn in her grave if she could hear and I agree.
English, wherever it is spoken lacks a word that means "you plural" unlike German, Spanish, Italian Etc. except in the American South. When a "Southerner" hears the word "y'all" (misspelled by my spell-checker. There is no apostrophe). that person knows that the speaker means "you plural" not you singular. If you use it as you "singular" it means you learned the word as it was misused in a Hollywood film or misused on TV. So remember, "yall" is you plural in English and should be used wherever English is spoken because it fills a need. As to bellows, for over 70 years I have only heard the part of a camera spelled with an "s". When I have heard a bellow, it has always came out of the mouth of a cow or bull............Regards!when it comes to the part of the camera that keeps a flexible but light-tight distance between lens and film plane, I only know it as 'bellows; and BY THE WAY,, I trust the Americans before the brits when it comes to the English language just because, they are more adaptable and refer to linguistic more as the common usage rather than rigid rule.
You (ye) is plural: thou and thee are singular.English, wherever it is spoken lacks a word that means "you plural" unlike German, Spanish, Italian Etc. except in the American South. When a "Southerner" hears the word "y'all" (misspelled by my spell-checker. There is no apostrophe). that person knows that the speaker means "you plural" not you singular. If you use it as you "singular" it means you learned the word as it was misused in a Hollywood film or misused on TV. So remember, "yall" is you plural in English and should be used wherever English is spoken because it fills a need. As to bellows, for over 70 years I have only heard the part of a camera spelled with an "s". When I have heard a bellow, it has always came out of the mouth of a cow or bull............Regards!
Try finding a Canadian-English dictionary on any computer device. You can seek them out but they are hard to find. You can get a British or an American spell checker but things get fussy when your language spells things as a compromise between the two.What does annoy me is whenever I get a Windows 10 update on my computer it changes the key board from British/English to American/English. Only 3 keys are affected, but what a pain in the rear end.
The use of 'are' denotes that you actually think that 'bellows' is plural. Why, instead, did you not say "the actual bellows IS the convoluted part ..."? And, "the whole assembly IS collectively know (sic) as 'bellows'"? I think that you fell into your own snare here. And, please don't hit this pedestrian when you are riding your bike.the actual 'bellows' are the convoluted part that fold up as the bellows are racked in or out. The whole assembly are collectively know as 'bellows' so therefor singular.
The irony is that in several cases the US pronunciation and spelling comes from older roots.
After the USA separated from England, the language(s) evolved in different ways.
What about "youse?"English, wherever it is spoken lacks a word that means "you plural" unlike German, Spanish, Italian Etc. except in the American South. When a "Southerner" hears the word "y'all" (misspelled by my spell-checker. There is no apostrophe). that person knows that the speaker means "you plural" not you singular. If you use it as you "singular" it means you learned the word as it was misused in a Hollywood film or misused on TV. So remember, "yall" is you plural in English and should be used wherever English is spoken because it fills a need. As to bellows, for over 70 years I have only heard the part of a camera spelled with an "s". When I have heard a bellow, it has always came out of the mouth of a cow or bull............Regards!
In my head, this was narrated by Stewie Griffin!My Fair Lady:
Yep! sort of like South Louisiana Cajum French, and Gulla, spoken by the blacks in the low country of the Carolinas as well as elsewhere. I have friends from coastal Virginia and the wife speaks with an accent also found in SE England. It seems that many in the Chesapeake Bay region of Virginia speak with this same accent. Where my wife came from in Germany, a dialect is spoken that our friend from Cologne could not understand and he, in turn could speak Kolnisch, not understood in her home town, etc, etc, etc.....Regards!I have read in several places that the dialect of English spoken in the Appalachian Mountains, although widely seen by educated Brits and Americans as uneducated, actually approximates the way English was spoken everywhere in the early 1700's. Isolated in the mountains, the predominantly Scotch-Irish mountain residents did not update their language over the centuries.
What about "youse?"
And "pants" "moose" ad nauseumWell, I'm a Yank and I've always contended that the word "bellows" is a collective noun, much like "deer".
One bellows; two (or more) bellows.
YMMV.
Around here (North-East Ohio) people spell it with a "g" and leave off the "jet" part. We're lazy... I mean efficientseeing its about 9:30 am local time as I type this I guess I should ask > "jeetjet?" ( if you haven't, the correct response is: nah'jooze ? )
Around here (North-East Ohio) people spell it with a "g" and leave off the "jet" part. We're lazy... I mean efficient
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