Talk:monies
Add topicThis is definately not a real word, mabye in american, but not english, which this dictionary is based around.
- Wiktionary does both British and American English. From the google books results [1] it looks like real word to me, a little old-fashioned maybe. Kappa 23:21, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
- In my experience, it's fairly common in legal parlance - I'll look for citations. Maybe it should be put down as legalese in this day and age. bd2412 T 15:07, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
"Suffcient"? Are you sure? 91.207.170.200 13:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
My understanding is that the difference between money and monies is similar to that between fish and fishes (i.e. money is the singular and plural of a singular currency whereas monies is a plural of more than one currency). For example, "I have a lot of money, 10K dollars" is correct, but so too is "I have a lot of monies, 10K dollars and 2K pounds. I agree with a previous contributor that this distinction might be antiquated, but so too is the distinction between fish and fishes.
- The citation referencing "sufficient monies" is a direct quote from the document referenced. It's not a matter of whether anyone is "sure", that is an example of actual use. bd2412 T 19:12, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
I am not perfectly sure that I understand the subject being discussed here but I believe it relates to whether "monies" is a real word. The way I was taught is that money being a mass noun is not normally pluralized but when referring to several accounts for example one uses the plural form. Another example would be water one never says I have a glass of waters but when referring to several basins of water, for example the Great Lakes, one might say "the waters of the Great Lakes. Another example would be "a pail of fish" but when several collections e,g, species are meant "the fishes of the Pacific". I own lots of land but I have visited foreign lands. Don't they teach this stuff in schools anymore? Ulao 06:07, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Usage shows that it is used as a plural version with the same meaning, not just different varieties.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 22:55, 30 March 2017 (UTC)