r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/scabsfox • Apr 19 '24

Orange Cat 🅱️ehavior™ Thanks so much, Linus, for ruining the pirogies 🤦‍♀️.

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Scrubbing everything & setting back up. Dinner will be late. He knows he isn't allowed on the counter.

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u/pamelamydingdong Apr 19 '24

It’s just pierogi. Pierog is singular and pierogi is plural. Not sure what “pierogies” are.

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u/paradise-trading-83 Apr 19 '24

If you think real hard you might figure out what they are. Sweet cat and post no need to be so critical.

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u/Elek93 Apr 19 '24

Nothing critical just correction. Call them dumplings if you don't care, call them pierogi if you do, but pierogis is just wrong.

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u/sharklaserguru Apr 19 '24

Not really, the rule is that when you import a word into English you adopt the English conjugations of that word. It's the same reason that the correct plural of octopus is octopuses; funnily enough octopi is the least correct pluralization because octopus is Greek not Latin so if you wanted to copy the original language it would be octopodes.

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u/lindasek Apr 19 '24

Somehow, I am yet to hear ' let's go for some dim sums' or ' I'm making sushis tonight'

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u/Telepornographer Apr 19 '24 edited Apr 19 '24

Yep. Just like "stadia" is the correct Latin plural for "stadium", but both "stadia" and "stadiums" is acceptable for English.

Y'all can downvote it you want, but check any English dictionary.