My hairdresser is advertising "Unlimited Blow-drys".

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I am sitting here doubting myself.

Blows-dry?
Blow-dries?
Hmmm.

most nouns ending in y pluralise to ies. Flies, cries belfries, so I guess blow dry would become blow-dries.

With or without hyphen?

And unlimited seems very nebulous. Twice a day for life? Or is the offer unlimited even by death?

I'm sitting very firmly on Team IE.

£45 a month, JasonSty. Hold me BACK.

I'll have to hold you back - dying won't

I'm going to agree with your hairdresser

Calling them blow-dries would turn it into a verb. Noun blow-dry plural would be blow-drys.

butterfly doesn't become butterflys, though. And fruit flies doesn't become a verb just because of an ies ending, either.

The problem is we're not used to seeing dry as a noun. ditto for fry, but stir fry isn't stir frys, either.

I am frankly more concerned about being blown away by the apparent infinity of blow-wotsits.

I agree about the -ies but I'm stuck on the hyphen.

blow-dries
blowdries
blow dries

I think not a hyphen: She had blow-dried hair. Her hair was blow dried.

My vote is for "blow dries"

Also take the point re Unlimited.

Nutella

I had no idea this was a pedantry thread
I thought it was somehow about thr practicalities of it, or even rude

The verb is to blow as in:

I blow your hair dry

dry is actually an adjective and adjectives don't have plural forms in English.

Hence the confusion.

at least it makes you doubt yourself, my hairdressers has a sign up saying 'all customers must take care of there own possessions'. It makes me twitch every time I see it.

Or there's this little gem in our town centre. It hurts my head every time I pass it.

My local supermarket has a notice thanking customers for their 'patients' during building work .

Isn't 'blow-dry' a multi-word compound verb?