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Danishes or Danai?

  • 01-06-2003 4:42pm
    #1
    Squall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭


    Ok stupid question but what would the correct plural of danish(as in the food) be, danishes or danai

    Yes it was a stupid drunken argument but i just wanna know for next time :)


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  • #2
    davej
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭davej


    The plural of Danish is Danish.

    By "Danish" I assume you mean Danish Pastry, in which case the plural is Danish Pastries.

    davej


  • #3
    Squall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Squall


    So technically we were both wrong

    Great i can still save face :)


  • #4
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Danai was a tribal name of the pre-Hellenic Greeks (Argives being another). It has also been used for all Greeks, including the Hellenic. They were rarely filled with apple and cinnamon and served with coffee.

    "Danish" and "Danishes" are both used as plurals of Danish, the former by considering it an abbreviation of "Danish Pastries", the second by considering it a plural to the abbreviation of "Danish Pastry". Personally I prefer the latter, the former sounds like someone is trying to apply a foreign pluralising rule to an English word.


  • #5
    Kopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Kopf


    Originally posted by Talliesin
    They were rarely filled with apple and cinnamon and served with coffee.

    :D


  • #6
    hedgetrimmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭hedgetrimmer


    Danai could be a kind of butterfly people...the word" danaid" refering to butterfly with degenerate forelegs...

    see this is what happend when a writer and English masters with a huge interest in etymology finds out about this section of the board...

    well if one doesn;t blow one's own horn...who will?;) ;)


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  • #7
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Originally posted by hedgetrimmer
    Danai could be a kind of butterfly people...the word" danaid" refering to butterfly with degenerate forelegs...
    That word comes from "Danaidae", which in turn may originate with the goddess-name "Danu", the root word of many names for regions, geographical features, mythological figures, and tribes, including the Danai so there is indeed a link, albeit rather tenuous.

    Apparantly danaids taste unpleasant though, adding to the argument that their is no link between danai and danish pastries (there is one though, "Denmark" and "Danish" are also words believed to have their roots in "Danu").


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