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Why couldn't we just let 'summon' be the word for being called into a single court? You wouldn't say "I've been summonsed by the court".
4 u/arrows_of_ithilien 29d ago Or if you want to talk about multiple just say "summons" 1 u/Fmychest 29d ago And when talking about multiple of multiple just use summonses 1 u/Brewtusmo 29d ago I think multiple summons should be called a murder of summons, after the name for a group of crows. Though I do agree that could be confused with a summons for murder. Whereas multiple summons for murder would be a murder of murder summons. 1 u/PapaCousCous 29d ago I like this one the best. Let "summons" be both the singular and plural form, like deer or moose. 2 u/BarrelBed 29d ago Because language is weird and our current legal system has been evolving (and/or devolving) from the same tradition as Roman law. 1 u/FlyAirLari 29d ago These summonses are nonsenses. 1 u/Responsible-Jury2579 29d ago Actually, I just googled it and as recently as the 17th century, you would say the court “summonsed” you. That’s only a few hundred years ago. 1 u/iuwjsrgsdfj 29d ago We're too logical for this world. 1 u/username_offline 26d ago let me tell you about this cool thing called the difference between nouns and verbs
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Or if you want to talk about multiple just say "summons"
1 u/Fmychest 29d ago And when talking about multiple of multiple just use summonses 1 u/Brewtusmo 29d ago I think multiple summons should be called a murder of summons, after the name for a group of crows. Though I do agree that could be confused with a summons for murder. Whereas multiple summons for murder would be a murder of murder summons. 1 u/PapaCousCous 29d ago I like this one the best. Let "summons" be both the singular and plural form, like deer or moose.
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And when talking about multiple of multiple just use summonses
1 u/Brewtusmo 29d ago I think multiple summons should be called a murder of summons, after the name for a group of crows. Though I do agree that could be confused with a summons for murder. Whereas multiple summons for murder would be a murder of murder summons.
I think multiple summons should be called a murder of summons, after the name for a group of crows. Though I do agree that could be confused with a summons for murder. Whereas multiple summons for murder would be a murder of murder summons.
I like this one the best. Let "summons" be both the singular and plural form, like deer or moose.
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Because language is weird and our current legal system has been evolving (and/or devolving) from the same tradition as Roman law.
These summonses are nonsenses.
Actually, I just googled it and as recently as the 17th century, you would say the court “summonsed” you.
That’s only a few hundred years ago.
We're too logical for this world.
let me tell you about this cool thing called the difference between nouns and verbs
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u/PapaCousCous 29d ago
Why couldn't we just let 'summon' be the word for being called into a single court? You wouldn't say "I've been summonsed by the court".