Is beers a yankee term?
Bob Luken
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I grew up NOT hearing folks refer to multiple portions of beer as beers. Instead, I heard folks say "I drank three cans or bottles or glasses/mugs OF beer". Tennessee is where I grew up. Is "beers" a yankee thing?
Beer is, grammatically speaking, like deer, right? You ain't "supposed to" say deers. I had never heard people say beers until I heard some guys from up north saying it.
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"I just drankted 5+5 beers and you're a poopy face b*tch ... I eat pho ..................barf"
What would happen if you substituted "water" or "tea" for beer? Would you say "I saw 10 waters?" "I saw 10 teas?" You'd think for a liquid you'd always mention the container, but these days it's not unusual to hear people say "I had three coffees for breakfast" or "I had two scotch and sodas for lunch." What a wild and wacky language this English is.
Beers= the quantitative number of above said product
It took me a few beers to come up with that.
Careful, gentlemen...we don't want to edge to another Civil War, do we? Although, in this particular linguistic scenario, I'd prefer the South to win....
Beer, or beers will keep us together
Either way man, whatever
Some yankee talking guy comes along, "beers" isn't wrong
Don't mess around,
Don't tell him he's wrong
Just drink, 'cause I really love beer
Drink, I'll do the spelling 'round here
Drink all you want and let beer/beers keep us together
No, really... I'm gonna have some beers. :^)
When you really think about it, WHY is there no plural for deer (or moose?). Just about every animal can be plural, either by adding an 's' or using a different pluralized term ("mice" for "mouse," "geese" for "goose" and so on).
The plural of beer is beer.
It's a volume noun like water and wine, so the statement, "I'll have a beer" implies that the speaker wants a glass, or a bottle, of beer.
Statements such as "I had six beers last night" imply that the speaker had either six portions of beer or six different types of beer.
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