Reply With QuoteDiver’s watch makes most sense to me.
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Just curious, do you prefer - Dive watch, Diver's watch or Divers' watch?
Diver’s watch makes most sense to me.
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But if a diver owned a dress watch, wouldn't that be the diver's watch? My grammar is not great...Originally Posted by Ellgal
I tend to use Dive Watch the most, sounds best to me.
Although I think sometimes I just refer to them simply as a Diver.
Last edited by Tetlee; 29th October 2019 at 22:55.
Not an unfair point. Perhaps capitalisation denoting proper noun?
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My eBay searches always used the rather incorrect ‘diver watch’ to get maximum hits
Dive watch.
Dive watch like most other people.
+1 for dive watch. It has the benefits of being fewer characters to type, one less syllable to say, and no apostrophe to think about where it goes in relation to the s.
Aren't dive watches worn by boxers?
Technically, yes. But that doesn't help. It's like saying a Nissan Micra is a racing driver's car just because it may be owned by a racing driver.
No. That's a disgusting habit. It's something narcissists do to inflate their Sense Of Purpose.
Agreed. But the most efficient search term only reflects the stupidity of the searching audience. Punctuation is ignored.My eBay searches always used the rather incorrect ‘diver watch’ to get maximum hits
Simplicity is good. And you'd get my vote but I don't think that's the accepted phrase.
Correct grammar = diver's watch. No need to use the plural form (divers' watch) as usually the subject is a single watch. If we're talking about many divers' watches then you could move the apostrophe but my personal opinion is that that would be self-consciously extravagant.
I think dive watch, or "a diver"
Don't get me started on the use of speech marks instead of inverted commas.
I didn't use a full stop either! Call the Fed's!
Pete, do stop - you'll have me opening a bottle of red before 7am. I try to avoid that if poss.
Don't get me started on people who say 7am, not 7AM.
Sorry I'm on the train and bored. Mischief follows.
7AM is shouting.
I really dislike it when people use a colon *and* am/pm. It's not 6:45am. It's 06:45 or 6.45am.
I tend to say dive watch or diving watch
I'm braced for the day when the tweedy East Coast Instagram Hodinkee crowd start calling smart, plain watches dressers.
+1 for dive watch.
I say diving watch or just diver
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Agree, ‘diving watch’ is better English than ‘dive watch’. It’s a watch for diving.
Makes sense (edit) to me. We say driving license, don’t we?
Interesting footnote, our colonial cousins say driver’s license despite the fact the document is generally called a driver license in most states. Language is alive.
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Last edited by Ellgal; 30th October 2019 at 09:43.
We say driving licence!
Diver's refer to their wrist computer as a Dive Computer, not a Diver's Computer so I'm going with Dive Watch too.
I think I prefer ‘diverse watches’ !
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
The item of clothing worn by pilots is known in the UK as a flying suit and in the US as a flight suit.
Clicky spinny ring watch
Really important people seem to use a Full. Stop. After. Each. Word. As. Well. 😂😂😂
(And before anyone goes looking yes I have done the same in the past!!😂)
Fair do’s. I imagine there’s a lot of variation across hundreds of millions of people.
Let me guess..... MA?
Proves my point really, language is interesting. More than just a tool to convey meaning.
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Dive watch for me too.
Simon
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But, you could argue that the particular model of watch has been designed to be sold to, and worn by, many divers not just one. So, divers' watch - a watch for divers not just one diver.
Or a watch to dive with?
You say tomato, I say tomato!!
Doesn’t really work when you type it!!
But that’s the funny thing about language. Language is often reliant on us seeing the person talking so that we can add their demeanour, inflection of voice and gestures to obtain the intended meaning.
And language is constantly evolving. When I learnt English I was taught that it should be “an hospital”. The “h” was considered silent and the word “a” should not precede a vowel, so you used “an” but today convention is that it is “a” hospital.
And let’s not even go to “i before e”.
Last edited by Onespeed; 30th October 2019 at 10:18.
I’m not going to check this first because I like the conversation and find it interesting but I think ‘an hospital’ is still correct when written. Equally, I think that the reason for this is not because the h is silent in the word ‘hospital’ but rather in the spoken letter h itself, as ‘aitch’. I wonder if anyone here knows.
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Date movie or dating movie?
Swimsuit or swimming costume?
Walk boot or walking boot?
Punch bag or punching bag?
Drive gloves or driving gloves?
Like most English usage, it's a mess and, as usual, proscriptions in the name of Better English are tenuous.
Yes, a watch to dive with but we don’t say a ‘steer wheel’ or ‘shop basket’.Or a watch to dive with?
You say tomato, I say tomato!!
Doesn’t really work when you type it!!
But that’s the funny thing about language. Language is often reliant on us seeing the person talking so that we can add their demeanour, inflection of voice and gestures to obtain the intended meaning.
And language is constantly evolving. When I learnt English I was taught that it should be “an hospital”. The “h” was considered silent and the word “a” should not precede a vowel, so you used “an” but today convention is that it is “a” hospital.
And let’s not even go to “i before e”.
Maybe those will come (unfortunately), laziness IMO.
Edit, just seen previous post!
I usually just use 'diver' without the 'watch'.
E.g. "Oh Christ, do I really need another diver?"
Otherwise it's dive watch.
There is no hard and fast rule as long you're understood within the context.
Yes, I see your point.
I'd still avoid the plural possessive there, though others may disagree.
It looks like Rolex and Omega avoid it too. That's not saying much though as their pages are littered with errors. I couldn't force myself to read more than a couple of pages.
I would use your suggestion where a specific watch (as opposed to a model) belongs to two or more divers.
It's a hospital. Not an hospital.
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dive watch or diver
Exactly.
A watch made for divers is a divers watch (it takes a common noun because the term doesn't refer to one individual watch but many).
A watch owned by a diver is a diver's watch, and a watch owned by many divers is a divers' watch.
However, I suppose it's worth noting that the title of this thread is accurate, and no one's not going to understand what we're on about whichever term is used. There are far, far more egregious abuses of the English language seen on this forum!
An 'ospital, guv?
I honestly don't think I've ever used any of those terms, just referred to a watch by it's name.
Cheers,
Neil.
Well there is an official definition of a watch that has passed the ISO 6425 test as suitable for diving and that is 'Diver's'.
No watch that has not passed this test can have 'Diver's' stated anywhere on the watch. That is why a Casio Frogman is a 'Diver's' watch but a Rolex Submariner is not.
Mitch
Dive watch for me.
Agree with you "Dive watch" sounds like an Americanism.
And that is a proper noun, hence the capitalisation.
Oliday watch init
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