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Re:Starship / Super Heavy by sgt on Sunday December 27, 2020 @03:38AM (#25549740)
Feet, not feets.
Re:Starship / Super Heavy by inglor_cz on Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:45AM (#25550385)
"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 (#25550046)
Thanks!
Re:Starship / Super Heavy by ehnto on Sunday December 27, 2020 @05:44AM (#25550195)
Not foot?
Re:Starship / Super Heavy by dempseye on Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:28AM (#25550321)
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."