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Grammar pedants - help please.

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LindsD Mar 2020 6:58am, 6 Mar 2020 33,820 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Sorry to be awol, and thanks for the compliment, NE
Peregrinator Mar 2020 1:36pm, 6 Mar 2020 466 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator Things native speakers know without knowing. McGoohan elsewhere used the neologism gigglesome, which I thought should be giggleful. But why? Some words can take either suffix (like to differentiate between flavoursome and flavourful?). Some definitely take one (tasteful not tastesome) and other the other (
Peregrinator Mar 2020 1:39pm, 6 Mar 2020 467 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator (fullsome not fullfil). Is there a rule, or just common usage? I m guessing there is a separate eoute that gives us words like winsome The M25 is definitely twatful.
Peregrinator Mar 2020 1:42pm, 6 Mar 2020 468 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator Errorsome finger issues. Fullfil and route. 😀
Peregrinator Mar 2020 1:47pm, 6 Mar 2020 469 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator For goodness sake FULLFUL - irksome!
Dvorak Mar 2020 8:43pm, 6 Mar 2020 19,143 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak [Winsome, you lose some, Peregrinator. I hope that's not too fulsome].
Diogenes May 2020 10:55pm, 14 May 2020 48,607 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes A man on the tv just said “now that is a binocular!” (He was An American). Was that ok, or should he have said “those are binoculars!”?
GlennR May 2020 10:56pm, 14 May 2020 49,931 posts	Quote Pin GlennR Both are ok. Also a trouser and trousers.
Northern Exile May 2020 8:48am, 15 May 2020 6,392 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile Sounds odd though. I'd go for the plural every time.
swittle May 2020 10:43am, 15 May 2020 63,690 posts	Quote Pin swittle Except when 'trouser' is used as a verb, indicating gains that may or may not be ill gotten.