🔵 Which word do you prefer to use: "scarfs" or "scarves"? (2024)

• English (US)

language changes and simplifies

leaf >> leaves
(leafs is unnatural)

thief >> thieves
(thiefs is unnatural)

scarf >> scarves
(scarfs is a different word)

The one dictionary above all others is the Oxford English Dictionary.

Many Americans dictionaries include American spellings and slang that might not be acceptable academically -- that being said, some of the differences are merely simplified spellings.

British English >> American English

colour >> color
neighbour >> neighbor
realise >> realize

So while some words, like "scarfs" is, in my eyes incorrect (at least as far as the history of the word is concerned with general language patterns) I also recognize that the English language is constantly moving and changing. Dialectics are shifting all the time. So feel free to make a choice and stand by it.

As long as communication happens, that is the goal.

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• English (US)

scarves

• English (US)

scarves

• English (US)

Scarves would be the written form and certainly for formal writing it is the correct spelling.

Although if you were talking to someone the sound would probably be more like scarfs than scarves.

(I’m from the southern United States)

• English (US)

If you're referring to a scarf worn around your neck, then the plural would be scarves.
If you're referring to eating, it's scarfs.

• English (US)

Scarfs is to eat something in a hurry. The plural of scarf when talking about the cloth worn around your neck is scarves.

• UkrainianNear fluent
• Russian

@chance25 @malevolentloki Thanks guys, I didn't know the second one meaning 🙂
Dictionary says that both are correct, at least for clothes 🧣

• English (US)
• Spanish (Mexico)Near fluent

I like scarfs more

• English (US)

language changes and simplifies

leaf >> leaves
(leafs is unnatural)

thief >> thieves
(thiefs is unnatural)

scarf >> scarves
(scarfs is a different word)

The one dictionary above all others is the Oxford English Dictionary.

Many Americans dictionaries include American spellings and slang that might not be acceptable academically -- that being said, some of the differences are merely simplified spellings.

British English >> American English

colour >> color
neighbour >> neighbor
realise >> realize

So while some words, like "scarfs" is, in my eyes incorrect (at least as far as the history of the word is concerned with general language patterns) I also recognize that the English language is constantly moving and changing. Dialectics are shifting all the time. So feel free to make a choice and stand by it.

As long as communication happens, that is the goal.

• UkrainianNear fluent
• Russian

@Aaronjohn Thanks for your reply!

• English (US)

@Alice_Snow anytime

• English (US)

scarves is the correct word rather than scarfs

• UkrainianNear fluent
• Russian