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Saw this on the back of a BMW dealer's delivery van

I'm sure Tel will appreciate it :lol1: ( The phone number's on the back if you want to let them know what they've done wrong;) )

LOL :D

The irony of it being on a BMW parts van :iamwithst

EFA

One I snapped in M&S :)

I think i see why he's parked it there :Suspiciou

http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/75/923DEC...1E748D6E35.jpg

Now this one is interesting (in a stiflingly boring could only be TelBoy sort of way). If they didn't apostrophise it, the word would be Pates, and technically, that's a "correct" word. So the only way to differentiate between pates plural and lots of pate is with an apostrophe, or another grammatical mark yet to be invented :norty: Inconclusive, i'd say.

Thought you would like that :D

An acute accent above the e would remove that doubt. Patés. :)

True :D Maybe that's what they intended when they sent it to the signwriters :Suspiciou

There is no plural for pate. The same as there is no plural for sheep.

Stunners? ;)

This is the only correct and sensible reply in this thread!

They do grammar schools as well as dips.


http://www.pates.gloucs.sch.uk/

Ah, the good old SN spelling police.

There's no excuse for it on professional signage, none whatsoever.

It shows a slapdash and lackadaisical attitude which I can only assume will be present in other aspects of their business. I will go elsewhere thanks.

But sheep is the collective term for "iPhone Owners" ;)

It gets worse...even the websites for other dealerships have cocked it up:

http://www.lauderdalebmwofpembroke.c...ls/service.htm

:facepalm:

There certainly is a plural for pate. It's pates. Whether there's a plural for paté is harder to determine, given there's no established rule in English for a French word.

What is a pate anyway?

(I know what paté is ;) )

It's got various meanings in the OED, and it doesn't seem to be commonly used these days. The head is probably the most succinct definition amongst them.

Tel, while there is no established rule in English for the plural of a French word, in my distant memories of O Level French I seem to recall that les grenouilles also add an s to a singular noun to make the plural (there are exceptions). Thus le paté becomes les patés in French. That's good enough for moi. ;)

i like that m8, made me larf

Not in English it isn't. There is a rule, its a French word, thus there is no English plural equivalent, because, that's right it isn't an English word :idea:

And its spelt Pâté in French, don't forget the chapeau!

Don't understand your point :Suspiciou

So when somebody serves canapés at a dinner party, are they just one step from insanity?

You DO realise i'm differentiating between pate and paté (without the circumflex cos i can't remember how to do it)? It's just your comment "not in English it isn't" doesn't really fit in :Suspiciou

What pate as in the crown/top of a person's head? that pate? oooooooh I see ok then :)

By Jove i think he's got it :D

doh :D