Which is grammatically correct?

Beers.
“I’ll have two beer”...sounds ridiculous:)

Ha, see the question right below yours!

Beers. Or two bottles of beer on the wall, if you will.

“Deer” used as both singular and plural is usage.

The word “money” means something different than “monies.”

That’s ridiculous, the plural of beer is beers because you’re talking about an individual beer (i.e. in a can or bottle) not just beer in general.

I didnt see that question. hahaha

If there was a huge vat of beer at a factory, you could say “look at all that beer!” You wouldn’t say “look at all that beers!”. But when you are talking about having multiple bottles of beer, you can say “beers” because there is more than one.

And yet, when I look out the window, I see one deer, two deer, 12 deer. Our language has lots of irregularies in it.

“Look at all those buccaneer!”

Yeah after you shoot three deer should you shoot three…meese?
Love those irregularities.

Jeesh! Who wants a beer?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/beer

3. an individual serving of beer; a glass, can, or bottle of beer: We’ll have three beers.

@proXXi I’ll take two beer. s.

“Hey, let’s go grab a couple of wines after work.”

“Deer” and “fish” are the only two nouns that I know of that mean singular or plural either way…..

@Val123 But, I love fishes cuz they’re so delicious… gone gold fishin!

I love fishes too!!! But you can’t say that to the President. “You want one fish, or two fishes, sir?”

@Val123 Watch me.

@Val123: sheep.

@susanc Sho nuff :) Or, in Kansas we called them “Sheps.” You know.

@erichw1504 Post it on Youtube!!

@erichw1504 : “buccaneer”—a piratical price for corn.

others: see also “the miracle of the loaves and the fishes.”

“beers”—your friend’s argument is not sanctioned by common usage; does s/he also say “two dish”?

I think this shut him up. Thanks guys. :)

@LexWordsmith It may be because it rhymes with “Deer.”

@Val123 Ends with “eer”.

It’s a distinction without a difference and someone is being anal retentive in terms of prescriptive syntax.

@pdworkin I read that as “prescription of Syntax”, like Syntax is a medication, possibly for their anus (anal).

Apply with tongue. Do not exceed recommended dose.

@gailcalled I don’t think the comparison with deer works. Deer is a count noun that happens to have the same form in singular and plural. “Beer” can be a count noun with a regular plural, as in “I’ll have 2 beers”, or it can be a noncount noun (and so has no plural form), as in “I’ll have 2 bottles of beer.”

I think we’ve beaten this question to death (especially me).

@morphail @gailcalled was just making the same point….as you said, “deer” _happens__ to have the same form in singular and plura—for no apparent reason! I could understand how certain people could get confused.

@Val123: To muddy the water (or waters)...From a Snow Leopard dictionary app.:

“USAGE: The normal plural of fish is fish ( : a shoal of fish ;: he caught two huge fish ).
The older form fishes is still used, but almost exclusively when referring to different kinds of fish ( : freshwater fishes of the Great Lakes).”

Now to the verbs: to fish and to bird but not to deer, to moose, to animal-of-whatever-kind and certainly not to beer.

Whoever thinks he’s grammatically superior needs to be smacked.

Tell him that dumbasses is plural for dumbass, but he’s the only one in the room so you can use the singular form.

@gailcalled Um. All I caught was the last word. And, I think I shall! Thank you dear!

Val; “Shall” what?

this guy who thinks beers is not a word is obviously on crack or something because “lets grab a couple of beer” sounds…wierd…thats not correct english

@gailcalled Um. The last word I caught in what you wrote above was “beer.” So I did!

@jessicamarie Well, yes, it sounds weird but mainly because we’re not used to hearing it. Actually, the sentence, “We saw several deer,” would sound just as weird if we normally pronounced the plural of “deer” as “deers.” But we don’t so, “We saw several deer,” sounds just fine, because we’re used to hearing it.

@Val123…thats true too i guess

I’m used to hearing “That needs fixed”, but my being used to hearing it (and a lot of other people’s being used to hearing it, in the mid-western-Pennsylvania area) doesn’t make it Standard American English.

@LexWordsmith Well, yes. That’s true. Just like I’m used to hearing “Where you at.” It doesn’t make it right. But my point was, “Let’s go have a few beer,” sounds weird, whereas “We saw a few deer” doesn’t sound weird.

Let’s go have a few, dear.

@LexWordsmith Beers or deers??

Mmmmm… Bambi!

Mmmmmmmmm BOP! ....oh, quit swooning! Get up off the floor and get back to work!!

@Val123 : Dears, of course.<grin>

@LexWordsmith You a Mormon? :)

No, nor a libertine, but certainly a Valentine.