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Comment by gizajob

1 day ago

I second that animus.

An example I had to endure in Britain recently was bus adverts for an Apple movie starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney called “WOLFS”. At first I thought I must not be seeing an apostrophe… but then… the horror.

For speakers of English (simplified) who can’t understand, the plural of wolf is wolves.

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dahdum  18 hours ago

It’s the same in both, it was deliberate. Wikipedia lists a potential reason.

> The title “Wolfs”, a grammatically incorrect plural of Wolf, is an apparent reference to the character of Winston Wolfe (aka “Mr Wolf”) - an iconic “fixer” in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfs_(film)