{"id":1070,"date":"2013-08-28T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:43:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:43:15","slug":"plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Plurals of Coinflip Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We speak of the outcome of a coinflip being <em>heads<\/em> or <em>tails<\/em>, which are surely singular nouns in this context, despite being derived from the plural forms of <em>head<\/em> and <em>tail<\/em>. So when we flip a coin twice and get heads (respectively tails) twice, should we describe the outcome as two <em>heads<\/em> (respectively <em>tails<\/em>), or two <em>headses<\/em> (respectively <em>tailses<\/em>)? I feel like you could make a logical case for the latter, but I guess the former does sound more natural?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We speak of the outcome of a coinflip being heads or tails, which are surely singular nouns in this context, despite being derived from the plural forms of head and tail. So when we flip a coin twice and get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}