What is the plural of beef.

[Ravencroft·]

Sounds weird but it's actually beeves. It's used most often if you're referring to several different kinds of beef. Otherwise you would just refer to it as beef.

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[BlocklandBlockoCity]

i prefer beef.

beeves is more weird

[BluetoothBoy]

I feel like people who say "English is dumb" don't appreciate the possibilities it provides within our speech and literature, more so that almost every other language.

[The Resonte!]

I feel like people who say "English is dumb" don't appreciate the possibilities it provides within our speech and literature, more so that almost every other language.

no we must get rid of these dumbness

we must go newspeak

[otto-san]

I feel like people who say "English is dumb" don't appreciate the possibilities it provides within our speech and literature, more so that almost every other language.

english......the language where....."beeves" is a word........................

[KristoB]

bork

[Nymph]

I had no idea about beeves before this thread but now I'm going to use it all the time to throw people off

[NotBomberguy]

you guys are all wrong its beefs

[c]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ar6rNSbBOw

uh.. beefo

[neonfallout]

I'm not sure if someone has already said this but it depends on your usage of the word!
If you're using it to mean the food, then you wouldn't pluralize beef. Instead, you would say "I had two different types of beef" or "I had double the beef" or something.
If you meant it like having a gripe with someone, it would be beefs.
"I have beefs with people all over town"

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While it seems like I'm responding to myself, actually this is Trinick arguing with neonfallout about her grammar.

You wouldn't say "I have beefs with people all over town" because that would imply that for each individual throughout the town, you have more than one beef. You would say "I have beef with people all over town." Furthermore, the plural of beef is technically beeves, not beef. However, you're right in that 99% of the time you would use the singular form with the plural on a different word, like "two cuts of beef" or "many plates of beef."

[Ravencroft·]

i ate the nicest roast beef sandwich last night

[neonfallout]

i ate the nicest roast beef sandwich last night

Man, we all know it, but you shouldn't refer to your girlfriend that way.

-Trinick

[ßlöükfáce]

what if u have beef with two people...