Plural noun's don't get an apostrophe

[benbk]

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Plural noun's don't get an apostrophe. So don't put one there.

Seriously, where did that come from?

Read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Definitely, definitely definitely!!!!

 

[bewitched1081]

well it might have come from short hand. eg req's for requires. in the previous example the 's was applied to a verb but people may have begun applying them to nouns (soln's for solutions).

 

[Medikit]

Those guys' fun has been ruined

 

[MadameLULU]

BenBK

Just bumping so I can find my threads later. Search: benbk

That is ridiculous...just do a search for the threads you've started, silly....

 

[patzan]

There's bound to be someone try to fight any point. For example, my "MCATs is not a word" thread. As in, "I rocked the MCATs." How can this be disputed? Trust me, they try. This apostraphe thing is a rule of the english language, but they'll try to fight it, those gunners.

 

[UseUrHeadFred]

Dude, not only did I rock the MCATs, but I WROTE the MCATs.

 

[Blade28]

That is ridiculous...just do a search for the threads you've started, silly....

Or click on Thread tools/Subscribe to this thread...

 

[benbk]

There's bound to be someone try to fight any point. For example, my "MCATs is not a word" thread. As in, "I rocked the MCATs." How can this be disputed? Trust me, they try. This apostraphe thing is a rule of the english language, but they'll try to fight it, those gunners.

I see where it came from. But that's dangerous; idiot's will see that you can pluralize an abbreviation and apply it to all nouns. MCATs doesn't make sense, unless you've taken more than one.

I studied with a group of EMTs.
(EMTs can't be confused with any other meaning)

Better than:

EMT's
(can be confused with possessive)

 

[Shades McCool]

Plural noun's don't get an apostrophe. So don't put one there.

Seriously, where did that come from?

Read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"

Why does your "noun's" have one?

 

[liverotcod]

Why does your "noun's" have one?

Since he did it in two discrete posts, I assume the use was a joke.

 

[IndyZX]

I tell you what, we didn't learn the apostrophe rule well at all in middle school. I had to relearn that stuff after I got to college.

 

[lorelei]

Read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"

Don't. At least not if you're interested in grammatical correctness:

http://newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1

The first punctuation mistake in ?Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation? (Gotham; $17.50), by Lynne Truss, a British writer, appears in the dedication, where a nonrestrictive clause is not preceded by a comma. It is a wild ride downhill from there.

(It's an interesting article, even after he finishes skewering ESL.)

 

[liverotcod]

Don't. At least not if you're interested in grammatical correctness:

http://newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1



(It's an interesting article, even after he finishes skewering ESL.)

Excellent article! Reading it allowed me to put off my current secondary essay for an additional 10 minutes, with the excuse that I was at least READING about writing.

 

[purple_rainbow]

adding my pet peeve,

A LOT is TWWWOOOOO words!!!!!!!

 

[Pinkertinkle]

So are people spelling definitely right yet?

 

[benbk]

So are people spelling definitely right yet?

In general, definately not. I see that alot. Its terrible to see so many grammatical error's.