• Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      649·
      1 year ago

      Sort of. “Dice” is both plural and singular, “die” is just singular. (According to both Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries at any rate.)

            • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
              33·
              1 year ago

              Actually, the American Southern dialect

              Individual dialects don’t really apply to this type of generalization. That’s really too specific.

              I mean, that’s a very specific part of America. Most of America doesn’t speak like the Southern states. It may be the largest specific dialect grouping (I don’t care enough to look into it more than a casual search), but that doesn’t mean that it encompasses a majority of America. Boston also has an extremely conspicuous dialect for instance compared to the rest of the country, but we’re not talking about Boston specifically ,we’re talking the entire US generally.

              We don’t want to go about saying that British English is wholly determined by the specific dialect around London do we? Even though that’s like 14% of the entire population of England.

      • ...m...@ttrpg.network
        44·
        1 year ago

        …f*ck the OED; they don’t even speak proper american…

  • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    Conversely, when you refer to a wargamer’s miniatures as meeples…

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      20·
      1 year ago

      Damnit…

      Now I want to 3d print a bunch of meeples and show up to Warhammer night at my LGS.