Re:Starship / Super Heavy
by sgt on Sunday December 27, 2020 @03:38AM
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Feet, not feets.
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"Feets" evokes a vision of Gollum, looking at gleaming Starship and hissing "What a sssstrange fisssssh!"
A nice combination of SF and fantasy in one picture :-)
Re:Starship / Super Heavy
by walkingolof on Sunday December 27, 2020 @05:02AM
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Thanks!
Not foot?
I never noticed this, but after thinking about it for a few minutes it seems that in standard usage there is a difference between attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives.
As an attributive adjective, "foot" is indeed correct, e.g. "a 130 foot yacht."
As a predicative adjective, "feet" is correct, e.g. "the yacht was 130 feet long."
Occasionally, in certain regional variations, you may hear "foot" used in the second case: "the yacht was 130 foot long."