Falkor Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Hi All I am co-ordinating our company golf day and am in process of writing the invites but have now caused a mass argument in the office over how to spell butties!? So is one bacon butty spelt butty and more than one buttys or buttie and butties Help please!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Got to be 'ie' - well that's how I spell it anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 when I lived in Manchester (well, Rochdale then Stockport) they were called Bacon Barms (as in barm cakes ) you could call them buns, or baps, or rolls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 well, you've come to the right place! I am from the land of the jam butty mines singular is butty plural is butties like pasty and pasties you can't argue with a scouser, I think we invented the word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Bacon Butty and then Bacon Butties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Singular = butty Plural = butties. Put 'sandwiches' on the menu and save them arguing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I'm with Poet and Ubereglu on this, butty and butties! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 One butty. Several butties. You will have to give your office the definitive Omleteer answer!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Agreed that, irrespective, the plural must end in "ies". Therefore, to avoid argument, just avoid offering them singly; if necessary, cut the thing in half and offer it up as "a round of bacon butties". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I agree butty and butties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Botties - oh sorry not got my specs on as above butty for 1 and butties for more than one or is it buttie and butties - oh hell who cares a butties a butty is a buttie - put botties and that'll floor everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 One butty. Better still, lots of butties. I agree with the others. They didn't know what I was on about in Suffolk when I first moved here and talked about butties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 lol only thing we call a butty here is a chip buttie but anything else is just a bacon roll or sarnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I agree with one butty or several butties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 No buts it has to be Butties........ simples squeek! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Please don't mention 'butts' to my grandson - actually today's word of the day was not butt........we spent a while identifying an egg which belonged to a small bird...... ....caused much hilarity... Sorry........butty and butties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Never thought about it before - I assumed it was chip buttie - like Barbara J. And definitely butties for more than one. Usually referred to (apart from the chip version) as bacon sarnie or sarnies etc. I do tend to say hammy sammy even thought it is a sandwich - also used for other fillings. Oh to be a fly on the wall to see the expressions on adult faces when youngsters start with the rude words! Poor Lesley! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 I voted butties but we usually say sarnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 I voted butties but we usually say sarnie ditto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard T Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Hi All I am co-ordinating our company golf day and am in process of writing the invites but have now caused a mass argument in the office over how to spell butties!? So is one bacon butty spelt butty and more than one buttys or buttie and butties Help please!!!! I agree with everyone who says "butty" and "butties". But shouldn't it be "invitations" rather than "invites"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Hi All I am co-ordinating our company golf day and am in process of writing the invites but have now caused a mass argument in the office over how to spell butties!? So is one bacon butty spelt butty and more than one buttys or buttie and butties Help please!!!! I agree with everyone who says "butty" and "butties". But shouldn't it be "invitations" rather than "invites"? Pedantic as ever Richard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
