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"A split" or "The Splits"

  • poll: Which way do you say it?
    The splits : (62 votes)
    58 %
    A split : (45 votes)
    42 %
  1. Becky

    persimmon / 1390 posts

    @DesertDreams88: On accident drives me crazy! Of course so does on line (I just hear the dialup tone when people say that).

  2. travellingbee

    hostess / papaya / 10219 posts

    It’s totally cracking me up how passionate both sides are! I completely understand that there is more than one way of doing a split so I can understand saying the splits as in I can do more than one way of splits. And I don’t think it’s weird at all to say I can do splits. Plural. But it is definitely seeming like a regional thing that someone would say she did a split versus she did the splits.

  3. dolphin

    pomegranate / 3768 posts

    The splits - Chicago

  4. FaithFertility

    eggplant / 11861 posts

    @travellingbee: A split amd I'm im FL

  5. birdofafeather

    pineapple / 12053 posts

    the splits - CA

  6. Shantuck

    pear / 1767 posts

    The splits (grew up in Chicago and Virginia). I've never heard it used in the singular form.

  7. AngelicOne

    persimmon / 1050 posts

    The splits & I grew up in SC, mostly.

  8. Mommy Finger

    pomegranate / 3272 posts

    Chicago - The splits.

    I mean, you don't say you're wearing pant. You wear pants. That's just as odd if you think about it.

  9. erinbaderin

    pomelo / 5573 posts

    @Mommy Finger: I’m currently taking French classes, and in French “pants” is a singular word, and I’m having a very hard time with it.

  10. travellingbee

    hostess / papaya / 10219 posts

    @Mommy Finger: but you don’t say THE pants. I am wearing THE pants. I am doing THE splits.

  11. Mrs Green Grass

    pomelo / 5628 posts

    Splits. CA via Iowa

  12. Mommy Finger

    pomegranate / 3272 posts

    @travellingbee: we could say that we're putting on the pants, but I don't think whether or not we say the or a before a word is the issue here. Just pointing out that just because a word ends in s, it doesn't automatically make it plural. And I'm honestly not trying to argue or be difficult. The English language has so many random side rules. No wonder others find it hard to learn!

  13. travellingbee

    hostess / papaya / 10219 posts

    @Mommy Finger: actually putting THE before it is exactly what sounds weird to those of us who don’t. It wouldn’t sound weird at all to me to say she was doing splits.

  14. Caly

    nectarine / 2765 posts

    Definitely "the splits!"

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