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Jeff Bankston

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Re: What you feel like doing....
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2015, 04:19:34 PM »

It's called duck tape because it's fowl!
foul chicken ! cluck tape.
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Geoff Doane

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Re: What you feel like doing....
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2015, 08:48:00 PM »

One of my colleagues insists on spelling it "GAFFE" tape.

The irony was not lost on me.

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Frank Koenig

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Re: What you feel like doing....
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2015, 12:49:56 PM »

Gaffers' tape.

Hi Steve,

In the cheerful and never ending struggle with our common language I observe that, in American English at least, that type of compound noun (a collective with a possessive serving as an adjective to restrict the noun) uses a singular possessive: gaffer's tape, sheppard's pie, etc. Apparently it is the tape of a single, representative gaffer, not all gaffers. Doesn't really make any sense, to me at least, but little in language does. I bring it up because I know you care.

As for Geoff's gaffe tape, that's excellent. That's what I'm calling it from now on.

Best,

--Frank   
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Steve M Smith

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Re: What you feel like doing....
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2015, 01:52:31 PM »

I definitely wrote it as the tape of choice of multiple gaffers!


Steve.


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Re: What you feel like doing....
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2015, 10:00:31 PM »

During the Vietnam war having a GAF attack was not uncommon.
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