~ Wordsleuths Contest: Winners Announcement ~ - Page 5

Originally posted by: Phir_Mohabbat

Nakhrewali the queen🥳❤️

Congrats soni and la_reine

Thank you😃

Originally posted by: tournesol

🤣🤣

People might actually think this was true 🤣

I had an amazing time fake fighting with you for sending the entries.

Thank you being an amazing and patient judge 🤗

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You should have had all the participants do some real sleuthing to figure out who the judges are! 😆

You're welcome, I had a great time! 🤗 Thank you for having the faith in me to do the stories justice! 😳

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

Wow! The results are up finally! Wonderful contest! 👏

First off, Bee and T 😆- kudos to you both for facilitating this, coming up with the unique idea in the first place, putting all the parameters in place, and answering queries patiently. I know this has been a longish (> month?) effort for you both and you both absolutely deserve all the applause! 👏👏

Thank you for inviting me to be the judge after I ditched y'all with zero entries! 😆

Next, congratulations to all the Winners and Runners-up (😆) for your remarkable entries. Amazing work and very well deserved. I had a great time reading them but an extremely difficult time marking them! That in itself shows the high standard of the entries!

I hope it does not sound too cliched if I say each one of the participants deserves applause because I believe writing within the confines of a contest requires an even greater effort and you guys all did so good. Claps for each of you talented souls! 👏

And finally (sorry for the long, boring academy award-like speech 😆), thank you, Shibz for the siggy!

(Sorry if I missed tagging any of the winners, but it makes me so happy that there are so many of you that I can't fit you all in! 🥳)

Thank you Lizzieeee. And thank you for judging our entries🤗

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

Wow! The results are up finally! Wonderful contest! 👏

First off, Bee and T 😆- kudos to you both for facilitating this, coming up with the unique idea in the first place, putting all the parameters in place, and answering queries patiently. I know this has been a longish (> month?) effort for you both and you both absolutely deserve all the applause! 👏👏

Thank you for inviting me to be the judge after I ditched y'all with zero entries! 😆

Next, congratulations to all the Winners and Runners-up (😆) for your remarkable entries. Amazing work and very well deserved. I had a great time reading them but an extremely difficult time marking them! That in itself shows the high standard of the entries!

I hope it does not sound too cliched if I say each one of the participants deserves applause because I believe writing within the confines of a contest requires an even greater effort and you guys all did so good. Claps for each of you talented souls! 👏

And finally (sorry for the long, boring academy award-like speech 😆), thank you, Shibz for the siggy!

(Sorry if I missed tagging any of the winners, but it makes me so happy that there are so many of you that I can't fit you all in! 🥳)

Thank you🤗 and thank you for being amazing judge

Originally posted by: tournesol

Lo Grandma ne bola, islye 'ups' hata diya. Happy? 😆

But that's not my point. I want to know why so many people say Runner ups and if it's correct or not?😭 I mean, do different dictionaries say different things? Is runners up universal or just British??🤔

Originally posted by: SoniRita

Congrats to all the winners and runner ups🥳👏

Same to you Soni

We share an award

Originally posted by: la_Reine

Same to you Soni

We share an award

Yes yay we share an award🥳 congrats again👏

Originally posted by: la_Reine

But that's not my point. I want to know why so many people say Runner ups and if it's correct or not?😭 I mean, do different dictionaries say different things? Is runners up universal or just British??🤔

I think it’s one of those common bloopers all of us make inadvertently cos we forget that it’s a hyphenated word. We end up adding the plural suffix ‘s’ at the end of the word like we normally do. Like mother-in-laws instead of mothers-in-law (God forbid we ever have to use this one in plural though 😆)

"Runners-up" is correct and "runner-ups" is incorrect because the plural belongs to the noun, not the preposition. Prepositions have no singular/plural, gender, tense etc., and that is why, in some Indian languages, prepositions are called avyaya - invariant words.

Likewise, the correct name for the famous detectives is "Five Finders-Out" and not "Five Find-Outers."

By the way, "cliched" is a weird anglicization of the loan word "cliché" that is already a past participle in French.

I published my entry with the "wordsleuths" tag (please remember to omit the hashtag symbol if you use this tag):

https://www.indiaforums.com/fanfiction/2947

Oh wow...such a wonderful surprise! Thanks so much Tia & Bhree for hosting such a brilliant contest so beautifully & thanks again for giving opportunity to a novice writer like me to participate in this contest. Thanks so much Shibani for such a beautiful siggy, will definitely use it in siggy box. Thanks to all the judges - Sup Di, Bhree & Koeli too. And congratulations to all the winners and runners-up of this contest. All of you people have such superb talent, kudos to you all.

(Sorry if I missed any to tag)