This crappy collage from 22 years ago popped up in my “remember this day” feed. (probably taken with a motorola flip phone) Which led me to wonder what would be a good collective noun for a group of General Lees…

  • cattywampas
    301·
    7 days ago

    Generals Lee, it’s like Attorneys General or Surgeons General.

    • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
      72·
      7 days ago

      If they were actual generals, yes, but since “General Lee“ is the entire name and “General” is not a rank/title, it’s “General Lees”. Because this isn’t a group of generals named “Lee”, it’s a group of cars named “General Lee”.

      So the correct pluralization would be “General Lees”.

      It’s easy to get confused with this exception to the rule

      • postmateDumbass
        1·
        6 days ago

        Could have been a bunch of General Motors products on the leeside of a mountain range.

        But im pretty sure they were MOPAR.