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[Falkor]

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!!!!

[Chickvic]

Got to be 'ie' - well that's how I spell it anyway

[Couperwife]

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

[Guest]

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

[ubereglu]

Bacon Butty and then Bacon Butties

[Egluntyne]

Singular = butty

 

Plural = butties.

 

Put 'sandwiches' on the menu and save them arguing.

[Omletina Kyckling]

I'm with Poet and Ubereglu on this, butty and butties!

[jlo]

One butty. Several butties. You will have to give your office the definitive Omleteer answer!!

[majorbloodnock]

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".

 

[chickencam]

I agree butty and butties

[Alis girls]

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

[Janty]

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.

[BarbaraJ]

lol only thing we call a butty here is a chip buttie but anything else is just a bacon roll or sarnie

[ClaireG]

I agree with one butty or several butties.

[WarrensWorld]

No buts it has to be Butties........ simples squeek!

[Lesley]

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.

[Valkyrie]

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!

[Seagazer]

I voted butties but we usually say sarnie

[Cooks]

I voted butties but we usually say sarnie

ditto

[Richard T]

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"?

[Lesley]

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?