Do you call it a die or a dice?

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I have always called this a dice

But I was corrected today (very firmly, by a 4 year old, backed up equally firmly by his mother) and now learn that dice is indeed the plural of die. But nobody I know calls it a die! Not even my mother, who is reliably correct in evey matter!

What do you call it?

It's a die - in fact that is what I would call a D6. A six sided die.

I also have a D4, D8, D10, D12, D20 and a D100.

This thread is cracking me up! 😂 is “panino” the singular of panini?! Totally didn’t know that!!

How did you develop this level of die expertise, Occasionally?

Not only is your word for the thing wrong but your picture is wrong, too!
The opposite sides of a die add up to seven. Therefore 3 is on the opposite side to 4; it cannot be on an adjacent face.

Die

Dice

I'm sorry, I can't take your word for that, Senua. I'm going to have to refer the question to my die expert, Occasionally.

One of the few things I know but can't bring myself to say correctly. I'll make great efforts to avoid saying either.

Barbara I disagree about fewer. I can't say 'less' when it's incorrect and find 'fewer' quite comfortable to say. If people are looking at me sideways for it, I haven't noticed!

A die, dice is the plural.

Next time say in your most condescending voice to the 4 year old that you have more than one D6 and were in fact talking about plural dice! Obviously! Can’t throw doubles without 2 dice.

To the pp who thinks the correct terminology is used only by twats.... the only way you know anything is to learn it. Small children love knowing random stuff and the people who think it is twattish are those who are not prepared to have a small child know more than them.
Language does evolve, but that doesn't mean that the correct terminology has to be buried so deep it cannot be mentioned.

I know "die" is the singular, but tend to say "dice" as it is easier to say and more commonly understood.

Dice.

I also call it a panini.

(not that thing, the other thing, the thing that is a panini but pedants will insist is one panino)

the people who think it is twattish are those who are not prepared to have a small child know more than them.

I definitely struggle with it. Especially when said child only removed his knuckle from his nostril all day to know more than me!

Dice. Didn't even know was a singular and plural name for it.

I think it's a die, but I'm dyslexic.

One die.

Two dies.

Obvious.

(And then later I learned to spell!)

Only one? I would usually use die.

I say dice. I have known since childhood that the singular is die, but it feels twattish to say that so I don't.

I say die. And ruler - but where I live it is in fact a ruler (the measurements start not quite from the edge in the way a rule does, I'm Canadian).

Since learning this many decades ago I have insisted that every game I ever play with dice (plural) necessitates dice (plural) so as to avoid sounding insufferably pedantic and risking correction by the insufferably pedantic. Win win.

DH is an engineer so a die is something else entirely in his lexicon and, also according to him, a rule and a ruler are both correct but it depends on where you start measuring from that determines which is which.

It’s a die if it is lonely. If it’s hanging with friends it’s a dice.

If it’s rocking out at a DnD meet it’s in mortal peril and needs to be careful.

I say dice, but know it's a die. I have explained this to DC and tell them that it's better to use common names and pronunciations as the official ones can sound wrong or odd.

In the same way I often avoid sentences with 'name and me' as most people wrongly assume it is always 'name and I'. e.g. Would you let Bob and me have chocolate?

I have tried to explain that if you remove Bob, 'me' works and 'I' doesn't, but many around me still think it should be 'I' and I work in a higher education setting

Singular: a die
Plural: two dice

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To the pp who thinks the correct terminology is used only by twats.... the only way you know anything is to learn it. Small children love knowing random stuff and the people who think it is twattish are those who are not prepared to have a small child know more than them.
Language does evolve, but that doesn't mean that the correct terminology has to be buried so deep it cannot be mentioned.

This with bells on. There’s no shame in someone having more knowledge than you.

It's a die.

And if my mother was still alive she would be telling you that a ruler is a king or queen, the thing you use to measure is a rule.