Talk:foot

Foot meaning Infantry

This meaning is supported by American Heritage Dictionary. See foot⁷ --Joe Webster 23:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Requests for deletion - kept

Kept. See archived discussion of April 2008. 06:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Link

coordinate term is used in the head of one of the sections. --155.54.178.6 14:13, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

My foot!

This special expression seems to be lacking in the article foot. The OED has the expression in the general article 'foot'. It is my personal opinion that 'foot' in 'My foot! meaning 'nonsense' should have an article of its own: foot (2). I assume 'foot' in 'My foot'is connected with French 'foutaise' meaning nonsense. foutaise was shortened and transformed to foot (part of the leg). Wiktionary doesn't give etymology, but at least the existence of the common expression 'My foot!' should be mentioned in the article 'foot'.--Rogermue 06:22, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Maybe see my foot? Why don't you help improve the entry by inserting the etymology? Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 07:43, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Well, I have written some lines uner the heading 'my foot' (discussion page). Perhaps you can use some ideas of it.--Rogermue 12:44, 24 April 2011 (UTC)--Rogermue 12:44, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

RFV

See Wiktionary:Requests for verification archive/2012#foot.

feets

feets should be mentioned --Backinstadiums (talk) 02:17, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Not here, IMO. It's too nonstandard: we would confuse learners by including it at foot. Equinox ◑ 02:50, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

soldiers who fight on foot (takes a pural verb)

FOOT: soldiers who fight on foot (takes a pl vb)  https://oed.com/oed2/00087593
HORSE: a unit of soldiers riding horses (takes a singular verb).  https://oed.com/oed2/00108182

--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:44, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Six foot tall; a herd of elephant: special use of the singular in certain syntactic contexts

CambridgeGEL, page 1588 reads

Examples like She’s six foot tall  involve a special use of the singular form rather than a base plural: the difference between this and How many feet are there in a mile? is a matter of syntax rather than of inflectional morphology.

In a herd of elephant it is arguable that the construction involves not a base plural, but a special use of the singular in certain syntactic contexts (comparable to the six foot tall construction).

What are that "special use" and those "syntactic contexts" the author refers to? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:48, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

plural

In front of another noun, the plural for the unit of length is foot:  his 70-foot ketch. Foot can also be used instead of feet when mentioning a quantity and in front of words like tall: four foot of snow; he is at least six foot tall
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/foot

--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:16, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

a foot out the door

Has this idiom been added yet? --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:45, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Creepy image

I find the image of the foot on the entry very creepy because of the transparent background when there are loads of non creepy images of feet on Wikimedia Commons 149.102.201.138 13:56, 25 August 2023 (UTC)