 Poster: A snowHead
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For pity's sake; the plural of ski is skis.
cat => cats
dog => dogs
ski => skis
It just follows the normal rules. What's so flippin' difficult about skis?
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 10-05-12 15:29; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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One might ask the same about follow's.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| fatbob wrote: |
| One might ask the same about follow's. |
Or follows. 
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Ok I don't know altis,
"I have a pair of skis"
"I have a pair of skiis and a sticking 'i' key"
"You go into the bar, I'll watch the skies"
"The bindings come of my one of my skis" - "which one is it?" - "It's this ski's"
All perfectly cromulent.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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'skies' is wrong (and evil too)
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I blame the confusion on the 'ii' in the adjective. It wigs people out.
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can this thread be stickied?
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Richard_Sideways, don't you mean when used as a present participle or a gerund (when used like a noun)?
I've never really tried to describe something as 'skii' before...
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I like the way Richard_Sideways has embiggened this.
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The rules for applying the '-ing' suffix are in play, if the 'e' or 'i' sound is silent, lose the letter, if it's pronounced, keep it.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Skiing has two eyes because you use 'em.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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In the words of the late, great, Oscar Wilde
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You know it makes sense.
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If only Pedantica was hear to keep us on the strait en' arrow. But she seems to have turned into a dizzy hairdresser groupie.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
"The bindings come of my one of my skis"
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Is this what comes of skis coming off?
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Poster: A snowHead
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In the early years of skiing the plural of ski used to be ...... ski !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I guess snowboarders don't have these problems?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Steilhang, oh we do. Do we board, snowboard or ride?
Plus we habitually talk in Gnar, so nobody knows what we're talking about.
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Naa, (some) 'boarders don t' board o' choice to board (or 'board or ride).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| I blame the confusion on the 'ii' in the adjective. It wigs people out. |
Isn't it spelled skiy?
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Gone boreding.
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Hie there, Pedantica!
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I'm still confused how to use 'ski' as an adjective.
"I went on a great holiday last year but I found the weather a little ski."
Ahhhhh..... i got it now!!
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Oh the problems the word "ski" gives us pedants...
"ski" as noun / verb / adjective: no problem:
I have one broken ski.
I ski on one leg.
"My ski instructor has no nose." "How does he smell?" "Terrible!"
"skis" as plural / 3rd person singular verb: also good:
I'll hire the pink skis please.
He skis like a constipated gorilla.
"skiing" as noun / present participle / adjective: also good:
Telemark skiing rules.
I am skiing like a fool.
"Where's my lucky skiing underwear?"
But the simple past tense and past participle, argh! We all know it's pronounced "skeed" but how the hell are we supposed to write it?
"skid" and "skied" are already existing words
Something like "ski-d", "ski-ed", or "ski:d" would probably make sense but still...
"ski'd" goes against everything I ever learned about inappropriate apostrophe usage, and yet that's what I've ended up using most of the time 
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ap96, great post. But I think the answer is 'skied', however counter-intuitive.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Pedantica, I think I will use the King James version:
...so Moses skiéd down unto the people, and spake unto them...
...and they said unto Moses, "skiest thou on two stone tablets? Surely thou hast too much width underfoot for these conditions"...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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your all talking out you're bottom's and nobody over their cares that there all getting it wrong they're in there posts
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Now the other big question is what do Italians call skiing? There is no "K" in Italian so is it sciing or schiing?
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Poster: A snowHead
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maestro di sci
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Richard_Sideways, As it's an anniversary instead of laudanum try nepenthe
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Altis > the plural of Alti. Do you share the Snowheads account with another person called Alti?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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mountainaddict, I suspect he was taking the wee wee
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mountainaddict,
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erm, has it occurred to you that this was a joke? 
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mountainaddict, it's a joke..... but 7, seeing as you asked.
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holidayloverxx, I make it 8, if you count the omission of 'of' as the fifth word.
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Pedantica,  damn you!
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holidayloverxx, sorry! 
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