A few days ago
If an unshelled peanut is singular is two shelled peanuts still plural?
Most (not all) peanuts, unshelled have two peanuts each in them. If they are a single peanut before being shelled, are they (two) actually one? Let me know what you think and why.
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A few days ago
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When it’s unshelled, it is singular. As you said.
When it is shelled and there are two, it is plural. As you said.
I’m trying to work out when you would ever wish to use ‘shelled peanut’ in the singular.
“I’d like to buy a peanut.” “Shelled or unshelled?”
“Do you want a shelled peanut on your icecream?”
No it doesn’t really work.
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A few days ago
I would say the a shelled peanut that has two halves when unshelled is still a whole peanut and a shelled peanut with only one section is still a whole peanut whether shelled or not. You would not call a whole shelled peanut a half because it only has one section would you? If you were to come upon unshelled peanuts, you would not be able to tell if they came from a shell with two sections or one, so each would be called a single nut.
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A few days ago
One peanut shelled is still one peanut even though there are two. This is part of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, where two equals one. Thus two am singular.
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A few days ago
It is plural.
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