plural of "chicken"

Ima Facultiwyfe · Post by **Ima Facultiwyfe** » February 22nd, 2013, 4:06 pm

Okay, once more to the fount of knowledge and the final word of all things that is the CTN board.

A very smart person I know corrected me last night when I used the word "chickens" in a sentence. She said the plural of chicken is still "chicken". I can't verify that anywhere. Anybody? I did read somewhere that historically in England, farmers would use the singular form in referring to their stock of poultry. But, that seems pretty far removed from modern day English if you ask me.

Isn't there a linguist expert OY? Can't remember who that is.

Love, Ima

bjornolf · Post by **bjornolf** » February 22nd, 2013, 4:27 pm

My understanding is as follows:

Plural of chicken the bird is chickens. I have 100 chickens on my farm.
Plural of chicken the food is chicken. I have a bucket of chicken.

Ima Facultiwyfe · Post by **Ima Facultiwyfe** » February 22nd, 2013, 9:08 pm

bjornolf wrote:My understanding is as follows:

Plural of chicken the bird is chickens. I have 100 chickens on my farm.
Plural of chicken the food is chicken. I have a bucket of chicken.

That makes perfect sense and I agree. I'm NOT going to give in on my argument. I knew one of you would back me up! Thanks!
Love, Ima

Devil in the Blue Dress · Post by **Devil in the Blue Dress** » February 22nd, 2013, 9:58 pm

Wikipedia has a pretty good article on chicken, the animal. Note how many times the plural chickens appears.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken

Now on the topic of chicken, the food, here an article which uses the form chicken exclusively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_%28food%29

These sources were readily available though I would have appreciated a more scholarly treatment of the matter.

devildeac · Post by **devildeac** » February 23rd, 2013, 10:10 am

Somehow, we must figure out a way to incorporate this into this thread, too:

devildeac · Post by **devildeac** » February 23rd, 2013, 10:11 am

This is the plural of chicken:

DevilWearsPrada2.0 · Post by **DevilWearsPrada2.0** » February 23rd, 2013, 10:54 am

devildeac wrote:Somehow, we must figure out a way to incorporate this into this thread, too:

ONE COCK and a heck of a lot of Chickens!!!!!

Ima Facultiwyfe · Post by **Ima Facultiwyfe** » February 23rd, 2013, 5:10 pm

devildeac wrote:This is the plural of chicken:

Wrong. That's the plural of "cock".
Love, Ima

devildeac · Post by **devildeac** » February 23rd, 2013, 7:19 pm

Ima Facultiwyfe wrote:
devildeac wrote:This is the plural of chicken:

Wrong. That's the plural of "cock".
Love, Ima

Don't give him any more ideas...

captmojo · Post by **captmojo** » March 9th, 2013, 10:07 am

A most delightful bird...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liXKwuJX4A0

ArkieDukie · Post by **ArkieDukie** » March 10th, 2013, 6:23 pm

Easy. The plural of "chicken" is "Tar Heels."

devildeac · Post by **devildeac** » March 10th, 2013, 7:24 pm

ArkieDukie wrote:Easy. The plural of "chicken shit" is "Tar Heels."

There, fixed it for ya.

captmojo · Post by **captmojo** » March 11th, 2013, 5:09 pm

devildeac wrote:
ArkieDukie wrote:Easy. The plural of "chicken shit" is "Tar Heels."

There, fixed it for ya.

Well done!

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