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Could you tell me which of "sports jacket" and "sport jacket" is right? sports wear sport league/sports league----which is right? Why is there"s" after "sport" before some nouns?
Dec 14, 2013 9:41 PM
Answers · 2
the same exact reason you say at mom's or at Dinner's. Let me break it down for you. So you got sport(noun) and then you got a car (another noun) and by adding an "s" at the end we get sport(')s (and now it's a possessive objective which means it denotes that the car in question belongs somehow to sport). Both are right, because sport is an objective, too, in word-combinations like sport(s) coat, sport(s) car, due to an s at the end is tacitly implied. You can observe the same pattern in other word-combination like a patrol car, fire truck, car pool ect.
December 14, 2013
"sports jacket" would be more like actual athletic wear, e.g. the jacket in a basketball warm-up suit (athletic pants and jacket players wear before the game starts). A "sport jacket" refers to a blazer (usually only men's style is called a sport jacket) and I think this originated from polo players since this is the kind of jacket worn typically. It is also called a sport coat.
December 14, 2013
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