Whine - "Mines" and "cent"
My wife and I were standing in a store. A customer entered with a nice picture and was looking for a box to ship the picture in. The employee says "That's a really nice picture." The customer replies "It is, and it isn't even mines."
Land mines?!!? What?? Mines? Yes, she said "mines". If you don't know what it should be, well, that's too bad for you. And rather than leave you hanging out on a limb or making you look it up, I'll tell you that it should be "mine". Possessive singular. There isn't even a pronoun mines. There is the plural noun mine, mines, but not a pronoun. I'm not a grammitician (grammatarian?)... I'm not a lingist (that's better), but I'd like to think that I know that it should be mine and not mines.
Where did the 's' even come from? This isn't like saying "y'all" which is a some what southern-attributed abbreviation for "you all" when addressing a group. No, this is different, much different. I haven't traveled enough and paid attention enough to hear if this is used in other areas of the country. However, I can say that in the Mid-Atlantic region, I've heard it.
Which brings me to something else I've heard. A different store, different people, and the sales clerk tells the customer "The total is three dollars and forty-nine cent." Scent? As in odor? No, singular version of the plural cents. There isn't one cent, but forty-nine of them. Therefore, that make them cents!! And cents is one of those words that you pluralize by adding an 's'. Not like "Three hundred forty-nine deer or bass." I won't even go into that (well, at least not in this whine).
Do you think that rapper helped with this situation? Why isn't his name "50 Cents"? Idiot. There's more than one - add an 's' already!!!
The only reason I even know of this cheese is because my father occassionnaly eats. Or perhaps I need to say ate it as it isn't readily available where he no lives. But the overwhelming reason I remember it is due to its odor - it smells. No, it reeks. All right, I'll be nice: it's pungent. :-)
Limburger is a German cheese (which is probably part of the reason why my father eats it). The cheese is a somewhat soft cheese with a mild flavor (too bad the smell wasn't mild too). A common use of the cheese is on a sandwich, eaten with onion. Think about that a moment.... Unlike Edam, Limburger isn't quite as healthy.
You can find more information about Limburger here.