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

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Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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