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by speciale on August 23rd, 2006

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Why do the Toronto Maple Leafs spell their name "leafs"?

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  • by showatt on March 10th, 2007

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    According to linguist Dr. Steven Pinker "Toronto Maple Leaf" is a headless compound which means neither "head" symantically describes the object. A Maple Leaf in this case describes a hockey player and not actual foliage. This can be seen with a word such as sabretooth, which is a prehistoric cat and not a type of tooth. The rule for pluralizing such nouns is to add an S as opposed to giving it the otherwise irregular ending.

    Examples:

    Sabretooth - Sabretooths (not Sabreteeth)

    Lowlife - Lowlifes

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  • by DarkFishy on August 23rd, 2006

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    It seems to make sense that they spell their name that way to show that each player is a leaf. By saying they're leaves, it sounds like each player is a bunch of leaves. This could be, or it could be that the person who started the team was bad at spelling... ;)

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  • by wwar11 on October 3rd, 2006

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    cause they skipped english class

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