For me, a tree has leaves, but a salad has leafs. The Toronto Maple Leafs team individual players are Maple Leafs. I am confident in (mis)using grammar in this way but wondering if other people do it too?
For me, a tree has leaves, but a salad has leafs. The Toronto Maple Leafs team individual players are Maple Leafs. I am confident in (mis)using grammar in this way but wondering if other people do it too?
I think its mostly that I’m far more likely to hear british people use the word to mean looking down on, and americans are more likely to mean be a patron, so I conflated the difference into the meaning. But according to wiktionary I’m not the only one who does that so, maybe not.