Proper plural for Guinness

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Proper plural for Guinness

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With the weekend coming up I was wondering: What is the proper plural of Guinness? I usually resort to "2 pints of Guinness".
Should it be Guinnesses, Guinnei or something else.

I figured this would be thr place to finally answer this question!
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Two pints Guinness is correct. It is common in English to drop the pronunciation of the plural when a noun ends in double "s".

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It's Friday. Two pints won't be enough.
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djm wrote:Two pints Guinness is correct. It is common in English to drop the pronunciation of the plural when a noun ends in double "s".

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Nope! It's Oirish Anglish, so 'twould be 'Guinnesses' If you are in a Proteshtant house or a upper class Dublin establishment then you have to say 2 Guinness, if you dont say it right the Prosteshtants will throw you into the Guinness tank in the basement to educate and convert you to their ways. Afterward they will make you say over and over again 'O'im Ian Plasley and I sells Bibles across the Border to them heathen Oirish'
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"Two pints of Guinness please."

"Two Guinnesses please."

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Maybe you should just stick with Bud. :lol:
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Cynth wrote:Maybe you should just stick with Bud. :lol:
Nah. You need Guinness to wet the inside of your bodhran and soak your harmonicas. Bud could seriously damage a bodhran.


But come to think of it...

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Guiness in a bodhran

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Hi Steve

You use water in the bodhran, (or a tuning ring), the guiness wets the inside of the harmonica player.

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Re: Guiness in a bodhran

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BigDavy wrote:Hi Steve

You use water in the bodhran, (or a tuning ring), the guiness wets the inside of the harmonica player.

David
That is certainly its most efficient use. It has the wonderful effect of making you think you're playing better when you're actually playing worse. Not just harmonica players eh! :D
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Hi Steve.

Too true, "drink giveth the desire, but taketh away the perfomance", in more than one sense. Anyway why use guiness to wet your harmonica, take Donald's, (Donald Black), advice and use malt whiskey instead.

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BigDavy wrote:Hi Steve.

Too true, "drink giveth the desire, but taketh away the perfomance", in more than one sense. Anyway why use guiness to wet your harmonica, take Donald's, (Donald Black), advice and use malt whiskey instead.

David
I bet Donald doesn't spell "whisky" like that! :wink:

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You'd get some pretty odd looks around here saying Guinnesses. :really:

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djm wrote:You'd get some pretty odd looks around here saying Guinnesses. :really:

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Resolve the whole issue neatly and just ask for the keg (and of course, the tap). :party:
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toasty wrote:
djm wrote:Two pints Guinness is correct. It is common in English to drop the pronunciation of the plural when a noun ends in double "s".

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Nope! It's Oirish Anglish, so 'twould be 'Guinnesses' If you are in a Proteshtant house or a upper class Dublin establishment then you have to say 2 Guinness, if you dont say it right the Prosteshtants will throw you into the Guinness tank in the basement to educate and convert you to their ways. Afterward they will make you say over and over again 'O'im Ian Plasley and I sells Bibles across the Border to them heathen Oirish'
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I'll remember that if I want people to think I have pretensions to Dublin 4 status, or reveal that my mom is a Whinnery.

I know a couple of bartenders hereabouts who pluralise "Guinness" as "Guinn-eye". Sounds sort of Anglo-Vulgate.
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