You know those little shots of creamer they serve at the diner? (Intergalactic House of Pancakes, in this case).
Half-and-halves? Half-and-halfs?
In a restaurant setting, creamers.
The contents are innumerable. This is like asking what the plural of water is. The container, however, is numerable. You already answered your own question “little shots of creamer”. You enumerated the containers: “shots”
If you sat at a table, and wanted water for each person, you would ask for “waters”. The container is implied.
Nah, the orders themselves are numerable. “How many orders of water do you want?” That you colloquially shorten it to “waters” is irrelevant. Even if you needed to order by volume, you would ask for UNITs (liter, gallon, barrel, etc.) of water.
It’s already plural, like pants.
Halves.
I’ll half what she’s half-and-halfing
Half ands half.
Always said Half n Half.
‘Get a case of half n half’
Like moose, deer, sheep, etc… the plural is also a singular
This was my guess, but I vaguely recall esoteric grammar for compound words? I am struggling for another example. Johnnies-come-lately?
Like Govenors General
Johnny comes lately?
…wait
More half and half
Found it in Wiktionary, thanks! Bookmarking that.
half-and-half = 0.5 + 0.5 = 1
two half-and-half(s) = (0.5 + 0.5) × 2 = 1 × 2 = 2
three half-and-half(s) = (0.5 + 0.5) × 3 = 1 × 2 = 3
…???
1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4
Argh, I meant + and then did a copy and paste error
It’s half AND half, not half TIMES half after all
