A boaty grammar query.

[john_morris_uk]

Why not call it a sloop?

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

As I said it's also common to add a suffix for the plural as in pounds, dollars, Krone/Kroner.

Ah! I hadn't realised that kroner was plural. All sounds the same when heard in dialogue of a TV drama

 

[NealB]

Why not call it a sloop?

Well:

1) She's 'her', not 'it'

2) She's a cutter, not a sloop.

 

[Kukri]

A beautifully evocative picture, thank you.

I can't help feeling that you have very probably met my friend.

I thought you were going to make a point about 'ton' versus 'tons'!

I believe I very probably have. And I think that it’s “ton” if it’s in an adjectival clause.
My present boat is 33 tons Thames (crikey!) 24.17 tons gross, 23.53 tons net, and about the same for displacement.

 

[LittleSister]

We don't have ten gallons hats, nine inches nails, six feet fences, or five litres fuel cans.

So, to my way of thinking a boat that is 27 feet long is '27 foot'.

 

[BigAlbatrossBird]

As far as I'm concerned, 27 foot is a measurement, 27 feet is body parts.

 

[Irish Rover]

As far as I'm concerned, 27 foot is a measurement, 27 feet is body parts.

Is they, indeed

 

[michael_w]

Bermuda is about 600 miles from the Caribbean Sea (pedant mode off)

 

[johnalison]

We don't have ten gallons hats, nine inches nails, six feet fences, or five litres fuel cans.

So, to my way of thinking a boat that is 27 feet long is '27 foot'.

I agree, but you could say ‘27 feet in length’. English is a strange language innit?

 

[alan_d]

Bermuda is about 600 miles from the Caribbean Sea (pedant mode off)

What an excellent thread, allowing people to exercise their pedantry (as one might a dog) without upsetting anyone.

 

[Bru]

Just put "Boat for sale. Here's a pic, work it out"

 

[Momac]

Instead of foot or feet use ft.

 

[NealB]

Just put "Boat for sale. Here's a pic, work it out"

A true artist has spoken: a picture paints a thousand words.

Cheers, Bru!

 

[snowbird30ds]

She has five and a half feet?

That is a well hung woman!
Thai I assume....

 

[LittleSister]

a picture paints a thousand words.

That's true, but the particular words that some boat sale pictures paint. . .

 

[NealB]

That's true, but the particular words that some boat sale pictures paint. . .

Ahhh ..... you mean the honest, tell it like it is, sort of picture, rather than the glamorous, sell the dream, type?

I'm not totally sure what category Bru's ads would fall into (but he is, of course, a very glamorous kinda guy).

 

[Bru]

I've been called lots of things in my time but "glamorous" is a first!

 

[NealB]

I've been called lots of things in my time but "glamorous" is a first!

Hey come on: have you been approached to be the next Bond yet?

 

[Bru]

Hey come on: have you been approached to be the next Bond yet?

Hell no, far too much activity involved. I could see myself as Q though

 

[Gary Fox]

27' Bermudan sloop.
As for the next Bond after D.Craig, it may be a lady in these egalitarian times. The film will be called:
'On Her Majesty's Secret Cervix'.