The plural of "Weetabix"

Having discussed this with the Mrs for about 6 hours today, I'd like to know what others think. Is the plural the same as the singular (like sheep and sheep), or do you add the "es", or do you change the end to an "i" like in "Fungi"?

 

I had to think about this for a while, but I think i'll go with Weetabix

 

I've got to agree, considering the boxes contain more than one Weetabix. I mean, they don't call it 'Rice Krispy', do they?

 

Weetabix. Kinda like sheep=sheep.

 

Ok, let me through a spanner in the works here (although FETT's Rice Krispy argument is exceptionally good and gains 15 respect points from me).

Let's look at nouns which end in "ix".

Fix

The plural of Fix is Fixes. Why should that not be the case for Weetabix? Can anyone think of another noun ending with "ix" where the singular is the same as the plural?

 

It's SHOOP! SHOOOOOOOP!

 

HERE in this recipe, it calls for '10 Weetabix' implying that the plural would indeed be 'Weetabix' similar to one sheep/many sheep. I have always used this forum of the plural, and I think sounds better than 'Weetabixes', also 'Fixes' is not the plural form of an object, that said I've just realised that the plural of 'Cake Mix' is indeed 'Cake Mixes'. Weetabixes just sounds clumsy to me, and I'd most likely say "How many Weetabix do you want?" using that form.

What the hell is wrong with me, it's 01:47 AM and I'm debating what the plural of Weetabix is?! HELP ME?!

 

Fix can be a noun

We've been in bigger fixes before etc.

So moving on, is it 1 Shreddey, but 2 Shreddies (like "money") or is it 1 Shreddie?

 

Weetabi

Bi on the end is my plural for everything lol

 

"How many Weetabix would you like?" - that sentence works. The answer could be any number. 1 Weetabix please. 900,000 Weetabix please.

"How many fix have you done today?" "How many fix have you got out of recently?" - These sentences do not work. 'Fix' can be a noun, but not an object. Thus it requires an additional suffix to pluralise it. It has to be fixes.

As regards Cake Mix... you can't ask "How many Cake Mix are there?" But you can ask "How many Cake Mixes are there?" If you ask "How much Cake Mix is there?", you're asking a different question.

As regards Shreddies... the singular form would be 'Shreddie'. My own reasoning would be be that 'Shreddey' would pronounce differently. 'Shreddie', when spoken, sounds like 'Shreddies' without the 's'. 'Shreddy' would pronounce the same, but you don't tend to take an '~ies' off and replace it with just a '~y'.

As far as I can tell, if a plural or singular form 'sounds right' or 'looks right', then it's usually the right answer.

 

weeta-bits?

 

So if the plural is Weetabix (although I'm still not convinced), would the singular be Weetabic or Weetabick, and Weetabix is just a corruption of Weetabicks?

 

The singular is also Weetabix.

"A Weetabix."

 

halibut is correct - the term "weetabix" is plural, as you get more than one in a box, and typically more than one in a serving. The singular is weetabie. (just as the singular of dice is die)

 

I see no reason why 'Weetabix' cannot also serve as a singular.

EDIT: 'serve', lol.

EDIT EDIT: The other thing to note is that 'Weetabix' is a brand name - created especially. It's not like 'dice', or even (as another cereal related example) 'cornflakes'. Cornflakes is a brand name, but it's also just a description. Even 'Shreddies' is a term borne of a description. I'd say 'Weetabix', as an invented term (a compression of 'Wheat Biscuits' I'd assume), can quite comfortably function as a singular and plural. It's no longer a description, merely a name.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: More info:

Here's a short bit taken from a forum I found using the search parameter "one weetabix" (obviously this is just another e-person's opinion):

Weetabix is a brand name for a well known cereal company's wheat biscuits. The correct singular for one "weetabix" is "one biscuit". The correct term for two "weetabix(es)" is "two biscuits". "Wheat Biscuit" being the type of biscuit and "Weetabix" being the brand name.

Also, this.

So perhaps it's up in the air.

 

Surely Weetabix is a corruption of Wheatabix/ck/cks

I'd say Weetabix is plural and singular. Though I do like Weetabi. Can we make that a proper word? Possibly a new planet/race in the SW 'verse? Sounds good if you say it in a Jamaican accent, not that i tried it!

 

lol I haven't had weetabix in years


It still around?

 

Fixed

 

Weetabix is not a proper word from the dictionary and therefore does not conform to any rules. You have all wasted your time. I thank you and good nite. Don't forget to tip your waiter. You have been a wonderful audience!

 

Haha - while its invariably 'weetabix', if only by convention, I just had to vote for 'weetabi' - inspired Halibut, as always!

 

As I understand it, Weetabix have never said that you need to eat more then one of the biscuits at a time.
Therefore I would assume the term "Weetabix" refers to an individual biscuit as well as more then one.

But, saying that, all other brand versions of the cereal call them wheat biscuits.
You can't buy "Sainsbury's Weetabix", but you can buy wheat biscuits.

So perhaps it is just simply the company name.

 

***** on a bike!

Sorry - using that name in that way isn't allowed.

 

Perhaps Weetabix is so dense, than when you put more than one "biscuit" into a bowl the mass is so large that a gravity-like action occurs to make the individual biscuits morph into one - therefore there is no such thing as "more than one weetabix".

I may publish a paper on my theory.