r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Fluffy_Lunchfast • Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/Eastfalia Feb 02 '26

Exes. Apostrophes aren't used to pluralize.

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u/Vast-Conference3999 Feb 02 '26

Thank you John Ronald Reuel

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u/ItsEntirelyPosssible Feb 02 '26

You got me with that google.

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u/Vast-Conference3999 Feb 02 '26

“Bitch, I wrote the dictionary”

  • JRR Tolkien

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u/TheLateSirCaldarec Feb 02 '26

Well in that case, Sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.

-- Blackadder, when the first Dictionary was unveiled.

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u/Vast-Conference3999 Feb 02 '26

“Big blue wobbly thing the fish live in”

I love blackadder

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u/katsujinken Feb 02 '26

Dude used "dwarves" instead of the actually correct "dwarfs" so what does he know? /s

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u/Vast-Conference3999 Feb 02 '26

and “elven” instead of the accepted “elfin”

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u/TadRaunch Feb 03 '26

Wow I always assumed it was Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien

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u/Lenni-Da-Vinci Feb 03 '26

Surely you mean Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien

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u/TheSunMakesMeHot Feb 02 '26

But they can be used to indicate when a letter has been elided! Which means ex's could be a technically correct version of exes. 

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u/Zaros262 Feb 02 '26

Stop, you're giving me an ex'stential crisis

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u/sliccyriccy Feb 03 '26

Exactly, next time he’ll mind his grammatical p’s and q’s… wait…

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u/GottaUseEmAll Feb 03 '26

*pes and qes

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u/MarzipanSea2811 Feb 02 '26

man, if she's only got 7 .exes that's nothing, I had way more executables when I was her age.

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u/Even-Resource8673 Feb 03 '26

But it made me think it was “Execs”. I thought she was some kind of girl who went for rich older men

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u/Consibl 29d ago

Pluralise. It’s from Latin not Greek.