My parents do say kleenices, but they’re massive nerds. And linguists. Dad has bad allergies so “Did you take the kleenices out of your pockets?” was a common laundry time question. They also pluralized pizza as “pizzot”.
Fun fact! Pizza is already plural. The singular is a piz, which is where we get the English word “piece”, because pizza come pre-portioned. The word “peace” also comes from the same derivation, because it is impossible to go to war while enjoying a piz of pizza.
My parents do say kleenices, but they’re massive nerds. And linguists. Dad has bad allergies so “Did you take the kleenices out of your pockets?” was a common laundry time question. They also pluralized pizza as “pizzot”.
Fun fact! Pizza is already plural. The singular is a piz, which is where we get the English word “piece”, because pizza come pre-portioned. The word “peace” also comes from the same derivation, because it is impossible to go to war while enjoying a piz of pizza.
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