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Old 01-23-2004, 06:58 PM   #14 (permalink)
Tophat665
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Originally posted by Bossnass
I would just like to go on the record to clarify that 'beers' is not an acceptable term. At least with the company I keep, as a Canadian, drinking Canadian beer. We long ago determined that 'beers' was slang that orginiated with the strange folk from Saskatchewan and Manitoba that drink Pilsner.

The working theory is that perhaps, if you are hovering near that 'white trash' line and you are drinking large-ish quantities (>9 each) of lower quality beer, 'beers' is the right term for you.

No offense, of course, 'beers' is one of my pet peeves.
You're at least half wrong - Whether or not it is the correct plural for multiple containers of beer, Beers are different kinds of beer - stouts and ales and pilsners and Oud Bruins are beers.

However, what is the proper plural of beer when you have mre than one unit thereof? You can't have 12 beer, or is that acceptable Canadian usage? I think you may have beer and deer confused. Let me clear it up: you drink the one without antlers. Either that or there are foxen in the henhice.
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