Outland or Outlands?

#0 - March 11, 2007, 9:42 p.m.
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I am hoping that someone can clear this up for me. What is the correct way to pronounce this? Is it always Outland, or can it be Outlands?
#3 - March 11, 2007, 10:06 p.m.
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Yeah, it's just Outland. It would be like saying Azeroths, or Earths.

Some have taken to calling it "the Outlands" but it's technically incorrect.
#14 - March 11, 2007, 10:18 p.m.
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The Deadmines

there's only one! Why is it plural!


Maybe because there's multiple mineshafts within it? I don't really know.
#17 - March 11, 2007, 10:20 p.m.
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Where did all the water go? It had to go somewhere.


Vaporized or propelled into space if I had to guess, along with everything else. As far as we know Outland is the only habitable piece of landmass left of Draenor. Emphasis on 'As far as we know', of course.
#27 - March 11, 2007, 10:28 p.m.
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And Outland is only one land? Surely with all the different zones and how different each environment is, they would be considered "Lands"


The title of the entire landmass is "Outland". It containing the word 'land' doesn't mean it's subject to pluralizing because you could consider it to hold more than one 'land'.

Take a store called "Coffee Stop", now you wouldn't call it "Coffees Stop" because it has more than one type of coffee. The name of the store is "Coffee Stop", that's it.
#31 - March 11, 2007, 10:31 p.m.
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Badlands?


That's the name of the zone.
#33 - March 11, 2007, 10:37 p.m.
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But I only see one of them.


/me discovers a new piece of land
/me calls it "Badlands"
/end

It's a title.