Can someone please tell me why people in the US use Foot sometimes and Feet other times? What’s the difference?
One foot, two feet.
One meter, two meters.
Bob Boudreau
Canada
They are the same : “feet” is the plural form of “foot”. As in : 1 foot, 2 feet. That said, it is common to hear people say “John is 6-foot tall” instead of the more correct “6-feet”. In both cases, it measures 12 inches (or 30cm) long.
Got it!
Thanks guys.
Some of the reluctance to use “six feet tall” might be because we use the same term for a unit of measure and for the name of part of the human anatomy. So, we also use the term, “ten-foot pole”, but I often hear “the driveway is 15 feet wide.” So, the convention is probably that we use the term “foot” when naming an item, and “feet” when the item’s dimensions are the real subject of the conversation…most often, anyway.
Foot (noun) Feet (plural), that’s all you need to know, anything else is slang and wrong.
Yep!!! It’s 4 feet from the layout to the floor. That being said, your 1200 dollar brass steamer , haveing cost 1200 dollars, takes a 4 foot dive to the floor. After that sigular and plurals don’t really count!!!
I thought it was one foot, two foots… no wonder people laugh at me…
I like to use 4x8 foot,1 foot by 10 foot when I am talking about layouts or lumber.
However,I prefer to say my layout is 50 inches from the floor…Now due to being a old brakeman I prefer to say 5 cars to the switch or joint,half a car to a coupling and 4 foot,3 foot to a coupling…That way there is no mistakes.[:D]
This is one of the irregular plurals in English. Similar words are Goose/geese and caboose/cabeese. [:D]
English can be a very perverse and confusing language.
At least the US has stuck to its guns on this! Back home in the UK, it always amused me when my Grandmother would purchase Metre wide fabric by the Yard. Also notice how Brits tend to use the Metric system for temperature in the Winter and Farenheight in the Summer. And don’t forget that fuel economy in the UK is expressed as Miles per Litre! In otherwords decades after the conversion to Mertic the UK is totally confused!
Especially the way we use it! Well gotta get my foots in motion and get to a rehearsal. Later!
I agree English can be confusing!
Sense, cents, scents
hare, hair
light (to see by), light (it weighs less)
fare, fair
Must be a million more.
Jarrell
Foot is singular, feet is plural. Anyone who says otherwise went to school in a tool shed.
Hey! I LIKED the tool shed!
Especially when Shirley was around…
Darrell, very quiet…for now
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Darn, and all this time I thought I was the special one! Just goes to show ya…can’t trust girls.[xx(]
I have never heard anyone speak of a 20 feet container. Always a 20 foot container. But then we would say a 20 foot container is 20 feet long.
I pity the guy from Sweden who first asked this question. English is not easy to follow.