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Bookmark or Share- grammatical number - What is the plural of "staff"? - English Language ...My recollection, which is not as reliable as it used to be, is that "staffs" is always plural for "staff" in British English (two staff members are two staffs), and most American English speakers use "staff" for both singular and plural. However, I sometimes hear the word "staffers" coming out of WDC news stories.
- Staff vs. staffs - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeIn an article I am reading from Bloomberg Businessweek, there is a use of "staffs". I thought staff is a collective noun and has no plural. The full sentence reads. Companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and DoorDash Inc. have established or expanded programs allowing employers to distribute meal credits to their staffs."
- Plural of "staff" (stick) — "staffs" or "staves"? [closed]For staff in the sense of "a body of employees", the plural is always staff; otherwise, both staffs and staves are acceptable, except in compounds, such as flagstaffs. Staves is rare in North America except in the sense of "magic rod", or the musical notation tool; stave of a barrel or cask is a back-formation from staves, which is its plural.
- grammatical number - Does "staff" take a plural verb? - English ...When the publisher of the computer magazine I worked on decided to combine that magazine's staff with the staff of another computer magazine that the publisher owned, the process was referred to as "merging staffs." At any rate, that situation is one in which staffs as the plural of staff appears to be correct in the sense of "in common U.S ...
- 'Staff' or 'Staffs' | UsingEnglish.com ESL ForumNote 2: For staff in the sense of "a body of employees", the plural is always staffs; otherwise, both staffs and staves are acceptable, except in compounds; such as flagstaffs. The stave of a barrel or cask is a back-formation from staves, which is its plural. (See the Plural to singular by back-formation section below.)
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