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[Misc] Woman/Women



seagully

Cock-knobs!
Jun 30, 2006
2,953
Battle
Is it just me who has noticed this annoying phenomenon of people using the plural 'women' to mean the singular 'woman'? Seems to crop up on social media all the time and have noticed it on here a few times. Example sentence from Facebook today: "Happy birthday to my Mum, she has gone through so much and is such an inspirational women"

Surely this isn't difficult. Wo-MAN: singular, Wo-MEN: plural

Am I just being an oversensitive Grammar/spelling pedant?
 






















Notters

Well-known member
Oct 20, 2003
24,865
Guiseley
I love women. Hate Germans though.....

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Yep and in the above example 'mum' is capitalised, which you'd only do if 'Mum' started the sentence. Bloody thickos.

Or if you removed "my".
 


GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
46,473
Gloucester
Yep and in the above example 'mum' is capitalised, which you'd only do if 'Mum' started the sentence. Bloody thickos.

You should also capitalise it if addressing your mother - "Dear Mum", for instance, not "Dear mum" - and should also be capitalised if used in the first person, as in "Love from Mum".
 




Surf's Up

Well-known member
Jul 17, 2011
10,147
Here
Haven'y noticed this myself, and swirly the correct spelling is wimmin???
 


Surf's Up

Well-known member
Jul 17, 2011
10,147
Here
****ing predictive text:

Haven't noticed this myself, and shirley the correct spelling is wimmin???
 





















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