Pooh fans: is it hundred acre wood

[123SA]

or hundred acre woods

or is it one of the two with a hyphen? hundred-acre wood(s)

I got all of these answers when I googled it. I thought it was Hundred Acre Woods, but I am not a Pooh fan.

 

[Faerie]

Okay, I played the Winnie the Pooh song and it says "Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood"

 

[123SA]

Thanks. I'll go with that then...I needed a tie-breaker. No character swap for you?

 

[TPCShauna]

In the original book, it is Hundred Acre Wood. "Wood" is plural when it refers to a large stand of trees. Popular vernacular has attached an "S" to the end.

 

[Faerie]

Thanks. I'll go with that then...I needed a tie-breaker. No character swap for you?

I have a TON of swapping stuff to use and a lot of my own scrapping to get caught up on. I'm hosting a tag book swap at the end of the month though

 

[123SA]

In the original book, it is Hundred Acre Wood. "Wood" is plural when it refers to a large stand of trees. Popular vernacular has attached an "S" to the end.

So you don't go camping in the woods? How about that!

Have you read the book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss? It is one of my favorite books. It addresses common mistakes like wood/woods and the random use of commas and apostrophes and such. It is quite funny.

 

[TPCShauna]

So you don't go camping in the woods? How about that!

Have you read the book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss? It is one of my favorite books. It addresses common mistakes like wood/woods and the random use of commas and apostrophes and such. It is quite funny.

In popular vernacular, you do go camping in the woods. Grammatically, you camp in a wood which is short for "wooded area".

No I have not read that, but it sounds like my kind of book. I'll have to look for that one.

 

[MazdaUK]

We used to go "to the woods", of which our favourite was Oxleas WOOD, on Shooters Hill (if you read a lot of Dickens you'll recognise that!)

 

[rlovew]

Have you read the book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss? It is one of my favorite books. It addresses common mistakes like wood/woods and the random use of commas and apostrophes and such. It is quite funny.

I haven't read the adult version but I have the children's book in my classroom. We will look at a page when we have a chance and talk about what is wrong with the first way and how to make sure of using the commas where they need to be in their writing.

 

[happycampers]

Have you read the book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss? It is one of my favorite books. It addresses common mistakes like wood/woods and the random use of commas and apostrophes and such. It is quite funny.

That book is so cute. I found it on display during a friend's book signing at a local bookstore. My DH, DD (12), her friend, and I stood there and read it together. Very funny.

 

[patchchild]

I love the book, but then I have an entire shelf dedicated to similar editing books and obscure dictionaries.