Comment on Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors?

• gasgiant@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What? If you saw them walking down the street together would you say

  There go the Trevors

  Or there go the Trevor?

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Different contexts. ‘There go the Trevors’ would be correct as you’re referring to a group comprised of two people named Trevor. You’re essentially saying ‘there goes the people whose name is Trevor.’

    Saying ‘they’re named Trevors’ is incorrect as neither individual is named Trevors. You’re taking about the singular name that each possesses. A singular name doesn’t become plural.

    You wouldn’t say, for example, of two blue cars, ‘both cars are painted blues.’ You would say ‘there goes the two blues’ or ‘the blues.’

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    • gasgiant@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s perfectly correct. There are two people named Trevor.

      So the plural is named Trevors.

      Are you trying to suggest the correct plural of named Trevors is Trevi?

      They’re named Trevi is completely wrong.

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      • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nobody is suggesting Trevi but you.

        They’re named Trevors will never be correct. The plural of Trevor is clearly Trevors, but the context of yours is referring to a singular name. Trevor functions as a singular name, not as a plural noun. The name doesn’t change because multiple individuals possess it. It’s the same reason we’d say, for example, two cities named Liverpool but two Liverpools.

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