• UmeU@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s just Ant… you don’t have to put the ‘s’, ant is already plural

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        7 months ago

        Maybe in the original British English it’s not, but in American English, ant is plural

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          7 months ago

          No it isn’t. Ants is the plural for a single ant in the English language flat out. In no region does the word ‘ant’ fall under the Singular Plural rules.

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                7 months ago

                The joke is that the meme has bad grammar, deer is plural. Rather than point out the obvious, I say that ant is plural, which is funny because it is both stupid, and draws attention to the deer/s. When my comment wooshes over heads, I follow it up with an even stupider comment, thinking that nobody could possibly be stupid enough to think that there is someone out there that thinks ant is a plural american english version of the British ‘ants’… and then I am once again astonished.