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[suityou01]

42

42 Quail eggs or
42 Quail's eggs or
42 Quails' eggs?

[aardvark]

So what's the answer?

42

[suityou01]

WHS. "quail eggs" sounds a bit stilted somehow, although I wouldn't go as far as to say it is wrong.

I mean would one say "hen eggs" rather than "hens' eggs"?

But if there's only one egg, it makes more sense to say "quail's egg", because it takes only one quail to lay each!

So what's the answer?

[OwlHoot]

Wot no poll?

Option 3 for me. The eggs will have come from more than one quail I expect.

WHS. "quail eggs" sounds a bit stilted somehow, although I wouldn't go as far as to say it is wrong.

I mean would one say "hen eggs" rather than "hens' eggs"?

But if there's only one egg, it makes more sense to say "quail's egg", because it takes only one quail to lay each!

[suityou01]

Dogs' eggs.

No that's one of EO's recipes.

[Ruprect]

Currently proof reading a new cook book from a well known IT forum.

Is it :

quails eggs
quail's eggs
quails' eggs

I'm just too fick innit.

Someone please help.

Psssst. I think it should be #1 btw.

Ta

Suity

Dogs' eggs.

[suityou01]

that could be 4 or more eggs if she had twins....

I was in devon, in somewhere called the Devil Stone Inn. Think Royston Vasey for southerners. I had SY02/03/04. We had dinner there. I had the gammon egg and chips, naturally.

The Devon-twanged buxom mid fifties serving wench did holler in best Wurzel

"Them eeegs is from the farm just doooown the roooad. Looks like you got a 'double yoker'"

Cue me turning wild eyed to SY02 like

[eek]

3 quail ovulations

that could be 4 or more eggs if she had twins....

[suityou01]

3 quail ovulations

[aardvark]

Very simple - same as duck egg (or rain cloud).

You might get away with substituting a duck egg (although it is a lot bigger), but I think you'd struggle to get the eggy taste from a rain cloud, unless it's very sulphuric.

[Old Greg]

What does the cuk style guide recommend? The times one would suggest quail but as others seem to show its a matter of debate.

Very simple - same as duck egg (or rain cloud).

[DirtyDog]

3 x eggs (from a quail)

or

3 x quail eggs

[eek]

FTFY

On an iPad,on the train, so I'm blaming tapatalk. Meh

[mudskipper]

What does the CUK style guide recommend? The Times one would suggest quail, but, as others seem to show, it's a matter of debate.

FTFY

[eek]

What does the cuk style guide recommend? The times one would suggest quail but as others seem to show its a matter of debate.