THIS
IS A
KEY
THESE
ARE
KEYS
THIS IS
JOHN KEY
THESE
ARE TWO
JOHN KEYS
THIS IS
ALICIA KEYS
AND THESE
ARE ALICIA KEYS’
TWO
If this doesn’t work, we’ll have to start calling you Matt McCartney or Magna Carten 🙂
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Or Matt McCartens.
Or Matt Milk Carton.
But it’s funny, isn’t it, how people have certain blind spots for singulars and plurals.
The Chinese are programmed to add an s wherever there is none, and delete it whenever it’s there.
And of course there’s the Maori youse.
It is Mmmmmmmatt MmmmmmcCarten
Now now, Mr Whale.
I admire the courage of anyone who enters public life with a speech impediment.
People like Ian Grant and David McPhail are lucky that their stammers tend to disappear when they speak in public. But for some the pressure obviously makes it worse.
I’ll just be happy if Matt stops adding an s to Key. Of course he’s only one of tens of thousands who do this.