Wow... the Red Sox may have single handedly turned the Braves season around. The season is still not quite at the All-Star break, but there are stirrings of life. I have gone back to the flag pole and am pondering bringing down the white flag i raised earlier. I might have to lower the white flag, raise the Braves colors and hunker down for a pennant race with the Phillies, Mets and Marlin(s). By the way, isnt the plural spelling of Marlin..Marlin? seven Marlin, the Marlin are swimming away? I need to look that up...
Useless fact(?) Using the software, researchers estimated it would take 124 weapons to destroy the U.S. and 51 to eliminate Russia as a country. The computer program mimics the U.S. military's SIOP, or Single Integrated Operational Plan, which outlines the targeting of America's nuclear weapons and the likely consequences of each attack.
Ah...I found the answer to my question above... using the Toronto Maple Leafs (a hockey team)as an example.
[T]he noun being pluralized is not leaf, the unit of foliage, but a noun based on the name Maple Leaf, Canada's national symbol... [A] noun that does not get its nounhood from one of its components cannot get an irregular plural from that component either; hence it defaults to the regular form Maple Leafs.
Same goes for The Florida Marlins (the plural of marlin is marlin).
Thought for today
"Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend." -- Endicott Peabody
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