The word 'mints' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a type of candy or as a verb to mean the act of giving something a fresh taste or smell (by adding mint). Example sentence: I always keep a few mints in my pocket for when I need a fresh taste.
All he ever did back then was blink and stutter and furtively unwrap mints that had long since gone warm in his pocket.
Kevin Watkins, the lead author of the UN's yearly Human Development Report, worries that the pledges the UN mints so readily may become a "debased currency".
The ECB insists it was only a trial model.National mints and the ECB do at least have a few years left to get themselves organised for the solid forms of the euro.
Refining, long a marginal business, is becoming lucrative.A number of catalysts are converting refineries into mints.
It employs almost 100,000 people and mints money.
The rise of rival web browsers coincided with the advent of Google's contextual keyword ads that crop up next to search results—and mints money for the internet-search giant.
"In spite of the widespread claims of continuing and even accelerating growth rates, internet traffic growth appears to be decelerating," the MINTS site concludes.Too little internet traffic could prove to be more dangerous to the industry than too much.Of course, looking at traffic growth in isolation is meaningless without considering capacity.
MINTS collates information about traffic growth from a range of sources, such as company statements, log files from websites and traffic reports from internet exchanges where traffic is passed from one network to another.
"Back until about five years ago, we had a pretty regular 100% per year growth rate but today it's more like 50-60%," says Dr Odlyzko.This chimes with anecdotal evidence from a number of internet-service providers that has been assembled by MINTS.
An entrepreneur selling mints in tins with a Democratic donkey logo was barred from the convention because his tins were made in China.Every speaker who could plausibly do so emphasised his or her humble roots.
Brian Tierney, who became owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer after Knight Ridder sold it last year, noticed that a popular item on the paper's website has been a video of Mentos mints causing a 2-litre bottle of Diet Coke to explode into the air.
