For me, a tree has leaves, but a salad has leafs. The Toronto Maple Leafs team individual players are Maple Leafs. I am confident in (mis)using grammar in this way but wondering if other people do it too?
No, but patronize and patronize are pronounced very differently based on context.
Leafs: hockey team
Leaves: someone making an exitFinally a solution to Eats, Shoots, and Leafs.
True
For me it’s always leaves, except for the sports team because that is a proper noun and they made it that way.
That makes sense! It’s probably how most people use it. So when you are talking about the individual leaves in your salad, you would say leaves. To me the are salad leafs.
I think I also leaf through the pages of a book, if that’s related.
Oh that’s a good point, in verb form it could also be leafs (“she leafs through the pages”)
That’s what I was missing!! Thanks :D
So leaves is a noun and leafs is a verb? So what is it that the Toronto Maple leafs thru? A book? A fat wad of cash, maybe?
Because they are named after a singular Maple Leaf they are all Maple Leafs. Like people that play for the Oilers are Oilers and not Oileronians.
Makes sense!
Leaves are for photosynthesis.
For Canadians who hate the Toronto Maple Leafs and their fans, Leafs is a source of schadenfeude.
Sometimes I see a flock of Nissan Leafs outside playing in the dirt
Another good one!
Plants have leaves and Toronto has Leafs.
One is Canadians. The other are ex marijuana smokers
This leaves a stain in my brain.
leafs is confusing for me 🤷
i see this in my dictionary ☞
(4chan, internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
Huh i never came across this usage before, good to know!
For me it’s more like a tree has many leaves, but I can collect 5 leafs off the ground.
I am aware that this is Wrong. It just seems like a distinction to me about whether there are a vast generalized amount of leaves or a smaller, countable number of leafs.
Make like a tree and leaf!
I thought it was “get
the helloutta here!”
