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No, leafs is incorrect. I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me with your link, it supports what I said as far as I can see. Leaves- The plural of leaf
by throwawaylinux 4y ago
No, leafs is incorrect. I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me with your link, it supports what I said as far as I can see.
Leaves- The plural of leaf, or to depart
Leafs- A verb meaning to rapidly turn pages while skimming for content.
When to Use Leafs
You will use the word leafs on one occasion.
As a verb, you can say that someone is leafing through
a magazine, while as a noun, a single piece of paper is
a leaf. Leafs is the present tense term for searching
through a book or other collections of paper.
That is the completely different meaning I referred to. And it does not have the plural of leaf as a second meaning.
> But leaves has a second meaning which makes it ambiguous.
It is unambiguous in that sentence structure where it clearly must be a noun. Even if it was ambiguous here, using leafs would still be wrong.