[crissei]

Okay, I can't take it anymore! This is so petty I know, but it's driving me crazy!<br><br>
Women do not have "breasts", as in the plural form of the correct term "breast".<br>
You have a right side of your breast, and a left side of your breast. Those round firm protrusions (in my case, triangular, and floppy <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"> ) are simply parts of your 'breast'<br><br>
Chickens do not have "breasts" they have a "breast"<br>
Cows and Goats do not have "udders" they have an "udder"<br><br>
Now I know that the term "breasts" is so ingrained into society now that it will never be changed, and I say it all the time myself, but I want people to know that it's wrong.<br><br>
Okay, I can sleep now that I've got that off of my breast. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/wink1.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="wink1">

 

[wasswifey]

<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"> Good to know, thanks for cracking me up too.

 

[rdkks]

huh, never really thought about that. Thanks for the enlightenment lol

 

[ThreeBeans]

Of course I don't have breasts.<br><br><br><br><br>
I have ginormous knockers. Get it straight. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/irked.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="irked">:<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/duck.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Duck">:

 

[Genesis]

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[crissei]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Of course I don't have breasts.<br><br><br><br><br>
I have ginormous knockers. Get it straight. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/irked.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="irked">:</div>
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ahem, I think you mean you have a "knocker" <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/Sheepish.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Sheepish">:

 

[ThreeBeans]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">ahem, I think you mean you have a "knocker" <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/Sheepish.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Sheepish">:</div>
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Oh, hell <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/ROTFLMAO.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="rotflmao">

 

[babymakesthree]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">ahem, I think you mean you have a "knocker" <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/Sheepish.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Sheepish">:</div>
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<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"><br>
in my case, I have a doorbell then

 

[Genesis]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">ahem, I think you mean you have a "knocker" <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/Sheepish.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Sheepish">:</div>
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laughup I am laughing way too much at these posts, it must <i>really</i> be time for me to go to sleep now! (my smiley is even cracking me up)<br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol">

 

[2tadpoles]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Okay, I can't take it anymore! This is so petty I know, but it's driving me crazy!<br><br>
Women do not have "breasts", as in the plural form of the correct term "breast".<br>
You have a right side of your breast, and a left side of your breast.</div>
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Forgive my stick-in-the-mud mentality, but....<br><br>
according to whom?<br><br>
The dictionary disagrees with you.<br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/orngtongue.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Stick Out Tongue"><br><br>
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1. Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.<br>
2. Zoology. the corresponding part in quadrupeds.<br>
3. either of the pair of mammae occurring on the chest in humans and having a discrete areola around the nipple, esp. the mammae of the female after puberty, which are enlarged and softened by hormonally influenced mammary-gland development and fat deposition and which secrete milk after the birth of a child: the breasts of males normally remain rudimentary.</td>
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2 a : the fore or ventral part of the body between the neck and the abdomen b : the part of an article of clothing covering the breast</td>
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[sapphire_chan]

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<div style="font-style:italic;">ahem, I think you mean you have a "knocker" <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/Sheepish.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Sheepish">:</div>
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Nope, "knockers" as in two objects which knock together.<br><br>
Boobies is also plural as are num-nums and babas.

 

[crl]

<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"> 2tadpoles, my DH swears I try to resolve every argument by reference to the dictionary. So glad someone else does this!

 

[linguistmama]

This is good to know.<br><br><div style="margin:20px;margin-top:5px;">
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I don't think I even have a doorbell much less doorbells! Maybe a keyhole. Especially now that dd is 2 and doesn't nurse that much anymore.

 

[RiverSky]

Crissei, good try but 2tadpoles, that was pretty convincing.<br><br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/fencing.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="fencing">:<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol">

 

[terrordactyl]

i love the goat doula part in your title thats all i had to say

 

[pookel]

That's an archaic standard. Language changes. Get used to it. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/orngtongue.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Stick Out Tongue">

 

[JustVanessa]

So I only have 1 boobie? Now what to do with that other thing hanging off my chest.<br><br>
If I can slap them together that means there is more than 1.<br>
So BOOBIES I say, not boobie.

 

[QueenOfThePride]

According to DS, I have booboos. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/ROTFLMAO.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="rotflmao"> I usually say boobs and he mispronounced it into booboos. And apparently, he has booboos too.

 

[CorasMama]

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So what the heck do I have then? Because my areolas are anything but discrete! They are huge and dark, especially against my incredibly pale skin.

 

[Mama~Love]

<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"> Thanks for the laughs!<br><br>
I guess mine are just "Yummie" then, since the plural form "Yummies" is inapprpriate.