Re: Why is it written 'full color' instead of 'full colors'?

"jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx" <jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
On Apr 16, 7:42 am, "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
jerry_fried...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Apr 15, 6:40 pm, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenb...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Sports bar, comics page, statistics class, (BrE) maths class,

> I don't think those count. As the Omrud pointed out, "maths" is a
> singular noun (for those who use it), and so is "statistics".

Statistics is a nice one, in that we have "statistics", the
adj-turned-uncount-noun name of a discipline, in the same way as
"physics" and "mathematics" etc, simultaneously with "statistics", the
plural of the adj-turned-count-noun name, "statistic", for a piece of
information of a certain type. Offhand, I don't think this holds for any
of the other usual "-ics" words.

"Physics"? Though neither the count nor the non-count "physic" is
very common these days.

No, but the Physic Garden in Chelsea (London) is alive and well, and worth anyone's time to visit: http://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/

[excision]

(AmE) pants pocket, (AmE) glasses case (but

> "spectacle case"--"glass case" probably isn't used because it means
> something else), etc.

But curiously, for the abbreviated form, my impulse is to say "specs
case".
...

That /is/ odd.

Not odd to me at all. It's not a set phrase, but entirely natural.
--
Paul
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