The contents are innumerable. This is like asking what the plural of water is. The container, however, is numerable. You already answered your own question "little shots of creamer". You enumerated the containers: "shots"
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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If you sat at a table, and wanted water for each person, you would ask for "waters". The container is implied.
Nah, the orders themselves are numerable. "How many orders of water do you want?" That you colloquially shorten it to "waters" is irrelevant. Even if you needed to order by volume, you would ask for UNITs (liter, gallon, barrel, etc.) of water.
I'll half what she's half-and-halfing
It's already plural, like pants.
And by that, I'm changing to pantaloonae.
In a restaurant setting, creamers.
Always said Half n Half.
'Get a case of half n half'
Like moose, deer, sheep, etc..... the plural is also a singular
This was my guess, but I vaguely recall esoteric grammar for compound words? I am struggling for another example. Johnnies-come-lately?
Like Govenors General
Johnny comes lately?
....wait
More half and half
Half ands half.
half-and-half = 0.5 + 0.5 = 1
two half-and-half(s) = (0.5 + 0.5) ร 2 = 1 ร 2 = 2
three half-and-half(s) = (0.5 + 0.5) ร 3 = 1 ร 2 = 3
...
???
1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4
Argh, I meant + and then did a copy and paste error
It's half AND half, not half TIMES half after all
Halves.
Half-and-halfae.
About the 3rd or 4th I came up with.
I'm sticking with that.
Half-and-halfae.