Only hospitals of a certain caliber.

Overheard in maternity...

Push, push, push, BLORT! CRASH!

Whoa, I guess it is possible to overwork one's Kegels.

More: Amusing, moderators, witch hunt
What??

What's a hospital?

Barakku: More: Amusing, moderators, witch hunt
What??

WHAT'S BOBBY DOING IN THE CORNER?!

no insurance

brap: Overheard in maternity...

Push, push, push, BLORT! CRASH!

Whoa, I guess it is possible to overwork one's Kegels.

Approves (NSFWish)

I suppose that's one way to discharge a patient.

Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.

...something funny about breach loading / birth...

grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.

life of the partys.

/:)

grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.

Dictionary.com: can·non (kān'ən)
n. pl. cannon or can·nons

Seth'n'Spectrum: brap: Overheard in maternity...

Push, push, push, BLORT! CRASH!

Whoa, I guess it is possible to overwork one's Kegels.

Approves (NSFWish)

Thanks for this fabulous ad! :)

I lol'd.

Reminds me of a REALLY old headline that was something along the lines of "What's black and white and red all over?" click link: Worker dies in printing press. Tragedy, but the headlines together were comedy gold.

I hate Illinois Grammar Nazis

Doesn't anyone think of what might happen if a clown walks by?


/ dnrtfa

The Angry Hand of God: What's a hospital?

It's a building with patients in it, but that's not important right now.

The only hospital that blows you away!

Feint: grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.

Dictionary.com: can·non (kān'ən)
n. pl. cannon or can·nons

Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to sheeps to shear and gooses to pluck.

The hospital cannons! Man them!

grinding_journalist: Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to sheeps to shear and gooses to pluck.

So...you mean it's a word?

grinding_journalist: Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right.

Merriam-Webster gives "cannons" preference as the plural.

grinding_journalist: Now if you'll excuse me, I have to sheeps to shear and gooses to pluck.

Pluck, pluck, GOOSE!

(Gets up and begins running circles around computer giggling like a schoolgirl)

Avast mateys and prepare to be injected!

grinding_journalist: Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right.

I don't think I've ever heard "cannon" used as the plural. "Canon," maybe, but not "cannon."

Despite the fact that I'm on the losing side of an unwinnable argument, I take solace in the fact that this thread has become a grammar nazi haven. My English degree doesn't provide me the same comfort when I'm standing in front of the fryer.

Even so, cannons is only a word because the improper use was propagated and commonized into an acceptable form.

AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I THOUGHT PATIENTS COULD FLY!!!

grinding_journalist: Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right canon.

FTFY, grammar nazi.

Starry Heavens: grinding_journalist: Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right.

I don't think I've ever heard "cannon" used as the plural. "Canon," maybe, but not "cannon."

That's exactly my point- nobody even knows that what the correct usage is anymore, because they're never taught what "right" is from the beginning. Thus, the "wrong" usage becomes the "right" one; if the majority uses it the wrong way, it's not wrong anymore.

grinding_journalist: Starry Heavens: grinding_journalist: Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right.

I don't think I've ever heard "cannon" used as the plural. "Canon," maybe, but not "cannon."

That's exactly my point- nobody even knows that what the correct usage is anymore, because they're never taught what "right" is from the beginning. Thus, the "wrong" usage becomes the "right" one; if the majority uses it the wrong way, it's not wrong anymore.

"Cannon" as plural just plain sounds wrong and can lead to confusion.

"Fire the cannon!"

"One? All of them? I'M SO CONFUSED!"

grinding_journalist: Even so, cannons is only a word because the improper use was propagated and commonized into an acceptable form.

Isn't that pretty much why all words or words?

Languages evolve. Deal with it.

eraser8: Isn't that pretty much why all words or words?

Isn't that pretty much why all words ARE words?

FTFM.

/See? That last post was language evolution in progress.

Cannon thread!

The fastest Outpatients department in the country!

Feint: grinding_journalist: Starry Heavens: grinding_journalist: Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right.

I don't think I've ever heard "cannon" used as the plural. "Canon," maybe, but not "cannon."

That's exactly my point- nobody even knows that what the correct usage is anymore, because they're never taught what "right" is from the beginning. Thus, the "wrong" usage becomes the "right" one; if the majority uses it the wrong way, it's not wrong anymore.

"Cannon" as plural just plain sounds wrong and can lead to confusion.

"Fire the cannon!"

"One? All of them? I'M SO CONFUSED!"

During the siege of a castle, defensive cannon were few and far between, so I suspect that when a cannonneer and his crew were ordered to fire, there wasn't much confusion about what to do.

On the high seas, once engaged in a broadside battle, you'd generally want to be firing them all, and as often as possible once in range, so again, I doubt much confusion would arise here as well.

Sorry for crapping on your joke, but I feel compelled, as the official antagonist of this thread.

eraser8: grinding_journalist: Even so, cannons is only a word because the improper use was propagated and commonized into an acceptable form.

Isn't that pretty much why all words or words?

Languages evolve. Deal with it.

I know they do, and I don't have an issue with it- it's when improper use gets defended erroneously out of a lack of knowledge for the history of proper usage of a word that my panties get in a wad.

Granted, this is rare- I'm actively racking my brain for a similar example of a slight shift in spelling that comes from the difference between the singular/plural usage of a word- best I can do is look at livestock manifests from the 1600s in England when illiterate peasants would write that they "hafe ten sheaps". (I'd link, but it's through a subscription required university library website).

As my greatest English teacher told me: Scholars do not shape or change a language, they just document the changes that occur- the peasants do all the real work.

grinding_journalist: Feint: grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.

Dictionary.com: can·non (kān'ən)
n. pl. cannon or can·nons

Oh, I know people use the word cannons, and it has become common usage and thereby acceptable. That doesn't make it right.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to sheeps to shear and gooses to pluck.

Thou art apparently unaware that words hath indeed changed over time. Language evolves.

grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.
Which sounds better?
Fire all of the cannon!
Fire all of the cannons!

Maybe you're thinking "canon"?

tchau: grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.

life of the partys.

/:)


The plural of cannon:

"Fire me, boy!"

EvilVanMan: grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.
Which sounds better?
Fire all of the cannon!
Fire all of the cannons!

Maybe you're thinking "canon"?

It would be "Fire the cannon!", and your gunners would fire them all.

And I'm not thinking "canon", this distinction has already been made in snarky fashion in this thread by JohnnyBGoode, which drew a snert from me.

Miss Dyan Cannon, yeeeeaaahhhh (new window)

grinding_journalist: EvilVanMan: grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.
Which sounds better?
Fire all of the cannon!
Fire all of the cannons!

Maybe you're thinking "canon"?

It would be "Fire the cannon!", and your gunners would fire them all.

And I'm not thinking "canon", this distinction has already been made in snarky fashion in this thread by JohnnyBGoode, which drew a snert from me.

Tell me, what would be the plural of troll, fry-boy? (or girl, or manbearpig)

/don't want to leave anyone out ;)

kruppz: The plural of cannon:

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The hospital may not have a cannon... but that nurse has some nice big guns!

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

ReiK: grinding_journalist: EvilVanMan: grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.
Which sounds better?
Fire all of the cannon!
Fire all of the cannons!

Maybe you're thinking "canon"?

It would be "Fire the cannon!", and your gunners would fire them all.

And I'm not thinking "canon", this distinction has already been made in snarky fashion in this thread by JohnnyBGoode, which drew a snert from me.

Tell me, what would be the plural of troll, fry-boy? (or girl, or manbearpig)

/don't want to leave anyone out ;)

The only thing I've been intentionally obtuse about is being a fry-cook, adhering to the Fark-ism of "English Degree= fast food employee"

I'm not trolling- I've not called anyone any names, and I've ceded to the points that others have made in the thread. Describe what elements of my discourse in this thread have been "troll-like" and I'll acknowledge them. I generally think that "trolling" on online forums and message boards falls under the description of "Deliberately antagonizing anonymous people anonymously for the purposes of amusing oneself by reveling in their irritation and anger your comments and actions have engendered."

I didn't pull that definition from anywhere, by the by- it's just how I see it. I'm not deliberately trying to piss anyone off- I'm calmly and rationally arguing for the points I've made in the thread.

Pretty sure the plural of troll is trolls.

sybby: Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

OMG! Someone on my side!

/even indirectly, I'll take it.

Maybe the hospital was owned by The Crimson Permanent Assurance.

I quite think it was a rather civilized disagreement about a word. But we are on the internet, and that means one of us must be a troll.

grinding_journalist: Thus, the "wrong" usage becomes the "right" one; if the majority uses it the wrong way, it's not wrong anymore.

Nothing is proper or improper in language provided the meaning is communicated. "Cannons" is quite proper because we all understand easily we are referring to more than one cannon.

grinding_journalist: ReiK: grinding_journalist: EvilVanMan: grinding_journalist: Cannons= not a word.

The plural of cannon is cannon.
Which sounds better?
Fire all of the cannon!
Fire all of the cannons!

Maybe you're thinking "canon"?

It would be "Fire the cannon!", and your gunners would fire them all.

And I'm not thinking "canon", this distinction has already been made in snarky fashion in this thread by JohnnyBGoode, which drew a snert from me.

Tell me, what would be the plural of troll, fry-boy? (or girl, or manbearpig)

/don't want to leave anyone out ;)

The only thing I've been intentionally obtuse about is being a fry-cook, adhering to the Fark-ism of "English Degree= fast food employee"

I'm not trolling- I've not called anyone any names, and I've ceded to the points that others have made in the thread. Describe what elements of my discourse in this thread have been "troll-like" and I'll acknowledge them. I generally think that "trolling" on online forums and message boards falls under the description of "Deliberately antagonizing anonymous people anonymously for the purposes of amusing oneself by reveling in their irritation and anger your comments and actions have engendered."

I didn't pull that definition from anywhere, by the by- it's just how I see it. I'm not deliberately trying to piss anyone off- I'm calmly and rationally arguing for the points I've made in the thread.

Pretty sure the plural of troll is trolls.

You do realize you can be successful and likable right?