Breakfasts or Breakfasts(es)

[squarepants]

i used to work in a cafe and it would really annoy me when customers ordered more than one breakfast as many of them asked for breakfasts(es). am i correct in saying that the plural for breakfast is breakfasts?

[Hgrove]

I would have thought so !?!

[paddy_36]

Yes, it's breakfasts. It's a strange mistake, as breakfastses is much harder to say!

[bernardo]

"Breakfastses" is completely impossible to say.  This is because nobody has ever said it.  I know this because I have never heard anyone say it, therfore nobody else ever has either.

[squarepants]

believe me it is possible and most irritating!!

[Clare A]

Similarly, I'm tired of being asked whether a 'couple' of something means two. As in 'I'll have a couple of slices of that ham, please'. 'Two?'. Grrrr! Since when has 'a couple' meant something so vague as 'several'?

[Trillipse]

it's the repeating sss sound that throws people:

 

in the same way that people get slippery with the multiple of a text message and often say textses or texses or textes.

 i find "texties" quite cute. ..

[Clare A]

'He texed me' is annoying. If 'he sent me a text message' is too much of a mouthful, then surely the past tense is 'he texted me'? But then I'm an incorrigible pedant,as has already been demonstrated!