"Aces"

[EIM]

What's up with this? Why the fuck has everyone started sticking the letter 's' on the end of 'ace'?

I blame 40%, specifically Lyra, who is by far the worst culprit for it. I've even been to to do it on occasion, but when I catch myself I give myself a sharp jab to the sack, as a reminder not to do it again.

I'm off for a nap now, and possibly some soup later, and when I get back I expect this to have stopped.

[Wyatt Earp]

"Aces"

Americanism.

[Wyatt Earp]

"Aces"

(They use the 's' left over from "inning".)

[Guest]

"Aces"

Or "math".

Anyway, pfeh to you, EIM.

[Gangster Octopus]

"Aces"

Anyone else cringe slightly when Abba sing "The gods may roll a dice"?

[Spearmint Rhino]

"Aces"

Yeah. 'Gods' indeed. FFS.

[Guest]

"Aces"

I prefer that to "God may roll a dice", don't you?

[DCI Harry Batt]

"Aces"

I say "aces" loads. Sorry.

[EIM]

"Aces"

Don't apologise, TonTon. Just don't fucking do it.

I decided against a nap. I've got shit to do. And I'm not having soup either - braising steak, carrots and mash instead.

[DCI Harry Batt]

"Aces"

But I like saying it, it makes me smile. Why don't you like it?

[Mumpo]

"Aces"

Saying 'aces' makes me feel like a twelve-year-old.

[Wyatt Earp]

"Aces"

Dirty paedo.

[Gangster Octopus]

"Aces"

Spearmint Rhino wrote:

Yeah. 'Gods' indeed. FFS.

D'oh! I walked into that one...

[Spearmint Rhino]

"Aces"

The Horse wrote:

I prefer that to "God may roll a dice", don't you?

I suppose the Graeco-Roman polytheistic model is better-suited to poetic metaphor, yes.

[Spearmint Rhino]

"Aces"

Or, you know, Nordic.

I like to think that Benny and Bjorn were thinking of Thor and Freya and that lot.

[EIM]

"Aces"

TonTon wrote:

But I like saying it, it makes me smile. Why don't you like it?

It sounds shit.

[ursus arctos]

"Aces"

Americanism

Huh? Perhaps in the sense of playing cards or fighter pilots, but not the way it is being used here.

[Wyatt Earp]

"Aces"

No, really. Dialectal, no doubt, and now archaic, but come on: "You're aces wit me, sweet cheeks", and so on. Edward G Robinson must have said something like that in every movie he made.

[Jimmy Bignutz]

"Aces"

Why say ace or aces when you can say skill?

[ursus arctos]

"Aces"

70 years ago, though.

The British usage of the singular is much more current.

[EIM]

"Aces"

or 'wick wock'?

Skill works. But some things aren't skill, they're ace. And vice versa.

[Wyatt Earp]

"Aces"

ua: Yeah, though even that's an 80s revival.

[Jimmy Bignutz]

"Aces"

Wick-wocks. Please.

Or brill-skills.

[tracteurgarcon]

"Aces"

More importantly, why has everyone started saying "Word"?

[Bored Of Education]

"Aces"

On a board where "word" is used, apparently unironically, and "meh" is also used, "aces" doesn't sound particularly worse although it is, of course, fucking stupid