JackClark

Ha!! That's is ****ing hilarious. So what would you say Tony, the iPhone has been around for year?? Why don't you just go quiet for a few weeks like the last time you tried to be clever, we'll all forget about it soon enough.

tony de wonderful

Bi-year is fine. You can add 'bi' onto the front of a name as a combining form.

tony de wonderful

Two years is more than one year technically could be referred to with the plural years.

hodgy0_2

Ahah you do make me smile de woeful, like snet’s answer to the

Terminator – similar determination (and charisma) - you just will not stop

Great and pointless at the same time

Leslie

Can't believe this was a question that deserved any discussion.

Les

JackClark

You should take a look at the apple thread in Computer Related Les. He's adamant that I'm wrong, even has his thumb on his nose wiggling his fingers. Madness.

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

And you are wrong, which really is the funny thing about it
What is really great though, is you needed to start another thread about what years means, hilarious really, all you had to do is look it up, i'll post that up for you and close this subject

Dictionary meaning.

year (yîr)
n.
1.
a. The period of time during which Earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time. In the Gregorian calendar the year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 and is divided into 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 or 366 days. Also called calendar year.
b. A period approximately equal to a year in other calendars.
c. A period of approximately the duration of a calendar year: We were married a year ago.
2. A sidereal year.
3. A solar year.
4. A period equal to the calendar year but beginning on a different date: a tax-reckoning year; a farming year.
5. A specific period of time, usually shorter than 12 months, devoted to a special activity: the academic year.
6. years Age, especially old age: I'm feeling my years.
7. years An indefinitely long period of time: it's been years since we saw her.


year
noun
twelve months, calendar year, twelve month period She's done quite a bit of work this last year.
plural noun
old age, age, senility, dotage, senescence, second childhood, eld (archaic) His advanced years have made him absent-minded.
year in, year out again and again, always, repeatedly, over and over (again), continuously, time and (time) again, time after time, unfailingly, recurrently Year in, year out, nothing changes.
Related words
adjective annual

Leslie

Yes ok-I have not seen that yet. What a strange chap he must be then!

Les

JackClark

See, mental.

Tony, what's the plural of year? Answer that then take a pill and go back to the padded room.

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

And you cannot speak English Jack....
Jeez, you fooked up, you cannot deny it, even the dictionary is against you
It tells you what "years" means, a very long time, if you were to indicate 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, then you indicate a length of time, have you not figured that out or are you really that sad?

Here you go, just because you didnt listen to your english teacher at school

Numerical expressions are usually singular, but can be plural if the individuals within a numerical group are acting individually:

Fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money.
One-half of the faculty is retiring this summer.
One-half of the faculty have doctorates.
Fifty percent of the students have voted already.

If you have not got it after this, you really must be thick

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

Note who started a thread on this good one Jack, make yourself look a muppet, try to avoid the fact you started all of this off bravo Jack, you really do make yourself look stupid all the time

jonc

TBH you're not doing yourself any favours either!

tony de wonderful

In my dictionary it says that usage is informal.

Really with any language you can use it how you want according to a language-game, so it's not set in stone. If you want to start using 'years' to mean two or more years with your mates it isn't wrong.

JackClark

What's the plural of year Tony? Simple question.