Apple 1 on ebay - Well, WAS it an Apple 1??

[Liam Proven]

On 7/11/05, Joe R. <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> At 07:10 PM 7/10/05 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> >
> >That's really not a half bad idea.  Is it legal to take advantage of
> >stupid people?
> 
>    Sure it is. What do you think lotterys are all about?

That's "lotteries". Words ending in Y when the penultimate letter is a
consonant change -y to -ies when forming the plural. If the preceding
letter is not a consonant - in other words it's a vowel - then an S is
suffixed in the normal way. So "monkey" -> "monkeys", "key" -> "keys",
"day" -> "days", but "penny" -> "pennies" and "sky" -> "skies".

Now, of course, some people might say anyone but a moron would know
that. I, genuinely, wouldn't, but I think it shows a point.

Saying that, the eBay sale does sound pretty damned stupid, but I
missed the original entry...

P.S. Agree 100% about lotteries!

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