plural forms

Hi,

Please let me know if dialogues and etiquettes are words

Kind Regards

Prince

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Originally Posted by princesabharwal

Hi,

Please let me know if dialogues and etiquettes are words

Kind Regards

Prince

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Dialogues is certainly a word.

I would say that you can pluralise "etiquette" though we would rarely need to.

There is etiquette related to eating, and etiquette related to dancing. If you go to a dinner and dance evening, you will have to study both etiquettes in advance.

Etiquette is etiquette. There is no plural.

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Originally Posted by SoothingDave

Etiquette is etiquette. There is no plural.

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Would you, in that case, not be able to use the sentence I gave?

"...you would have to study both etiquettes in advance."

Would you have said "you would have to study the etiquette of/for both in advance"?

Yes, that is how I would say it. Something like "study the etiquette for each situation."

(I checked an online dictionary and there is no plural given for the word.)

Miss Manners would probably say something like "there is only etiquette, and it applies to whatever situation one might find himself in."

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Originally Posted by SoothingDave

Miss Manners would probably say something like "there is only etiquette, and it applies to whatever situation one might find himself in."

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Not "oneself"? :lol:

Yes, "oneself." ;-)

Yes, they are indeed words!

"étiquettes" is a word in French, it means "tickets".;-)