Language question: Why has "vinyls" become a word?

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  1. classicrocker

    classicrocker Life is good!

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    For no apparent reason
     
  2. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    Or, dropping the "d" on the end of words like "supposed".
     
  3. mr.dave

    mr.dave Forum Resident

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    Vinyls? I'm loving it!!
     
  4. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    And destroyed. There must be rules to follow. Without rules you have anarchy. And, in this case, miscommunication.
     
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  5. Christian Hill

    Christian Hill It's all in the mind

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    Hardly.

    Every year, new words are being coined and new definitions added to already existing words. In January 2018, The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced that it has added more than 1,100 words, senses, and sub-entries.
     
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  6. sleepjar

    sleepjar Underachiever

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    It is a well-known fact that the singular of macaroni is macaroon. [​IMG]
     
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  7. bob_32_116

    bob_32_116 Forum Flaneur

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    Ever noticed how ridiculous some cliches are? You're saying that every day, just before sunset, language takes a little evolutionary step forward. :D

    "At the end of the day, it's the big end of town that calls the shots and reaps the rewards". I think of giant cowboys riding out of giant houses at sunset, finishing off their gunfights before taking their scythes into the wheatfield.
     
  8. Christian Hill

    Christian Hill It's all in the mind

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    Rules change also
     
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  9. onlyacanvasky

    onlyacanvasky Your guess is as good as mine.

    We had vinyl floors in our kitchen. And people we knew had vinyl couches, they were very sticky. I'm a millennial (although truth be told I feel more like a Xennial).

    This seems as good a time as any for the reminder that a lot of millenials are in their 30s with kids of their own, with some rounding on 40. They are not "kids these days".
     
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  10. Christian Hill

    Christian Hill It's all in the mind

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    You mean humans? Yes, they do tend try and use familiar phrases in their communication
     
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  11. Tartifless

    Tartifless Forum Resident

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    According to you.

    The oxford dictionary says the opposite.
     
  12. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I'm not sure about "International English" being the cause, or your blaming "hipsters", but you have a good point about people equating albums with vinyl and not CD. If fact, an album can exist on many types of formats.
     
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  13. Tartifless

    Tartifless Forum Resident

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    It has already added vinyl as a noun that can be counted !
     
  14. drad dog

    drad dog A Listener

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    Are british subjects more likely to use the word? It sounds English to me.
     
  15. bob_32_116

    bob_32_116 Forum Flaneur

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    That surprises me. I would have said we should accept whether it's in the dictionary yet or not, but it's good to know they are keeping up with language evolution.

    Time to close the thread?
     
  16. Terrapin Station

    Terrapin Station Master Guns

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    Isn't the stupid thing the idea of something being correct because it's a norm?
     
  17. violarules

    violarules Senior Member

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    :confused: :sigh:
     
  18. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    No. I am a Black American and do not say "axe" for the word "ask". I believe the inability for Some Black Americans to say "ask" has to do with the inability to raise the back of the tongue to the palate. The ability to manipulate the tongue in certain ways is also a feature of some Asian peoples attempting to speak English words.

    I did not grow up around other Black Americans other than immediate family, and we came from the midwest, so this may be a reason why I do not switch consonants. I reject that dropping consonants is a characteristic of the way all Black Americans speak. It's frankly, BS.
     
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  19. gfong

    gfong Forum Resident

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    I cringe when I read it and hear it! Lol
     
  20. fmfxray373

    fmfxray373 Capitol LPs in the 70s were pretty good.

    I think it is more an English as a second language tendency to pluralize words that already denote plurality that has sort of crept in as accepted usage because of the way the internet has sort of made English the international if not completely correct
    mother tongue.
     
  21. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    What year is it now?
     
  22. Spencer R

    Spencer R Forum Resident

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    Spaghetto is the Italian singular form of spaghetti, but the singular of macaroni is macarone, not macarono.
     
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  23. thrivingonariff

    thrivingonariff Forum Resident

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    So it's your belief that no adjective can properly become a count noun? You would, for example, condemn the plural noun "collectibles" and insist on the use of "collectible records" instead?
     
  24. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    They change, but are not obliterated because of laziness or total disregard of it.
     
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  25. DeRosa

    DeRosa Vinyl Forever

    Standard practice for making abbreviations plural is adding an "s".
    I'm not sure that every example of an abbreviated acronym has to have the final letter be the noun,
    which is basically what is getting your knickers in a knot, or KIATs.
    Maybe you should try getting the world of baseball to use BIRs?

    How many DNFs did you have in high school races?
     
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