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Hi, Could someone let me know the plural form of "smiley"? It's really just a pieceof Internet slang. The more formal spelling rules don't really have to apply. I'd keep the singular form, and just add 's', ie 'smileys'. Best wishes, Clive

Hi, Your sentences contain many mistakes, both spelling and punctuation ones. The first sentence is part a Christian prayer (shortened form, I put '...' where parts of the text are missing): Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentem; factorum coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium...

Grammar Geek wrote:Lest we be tempted to hold up spammers are paragons of grammar, in addition to the "any more" issue, e-mail is almost always singular.Hi GGComputer magazines abound in millions of examples of e-mail used in the plural whenever the occasion presents itself. The following...

It depends on context. boys- plural of boy boy's - possessive of one boy boys' - possessive of more than one boy

Hi, I'm a science editor at the VA hospital in Washington state. A few weeks ago I was editing a manuscript that varied its use of tissue and tissues. I searched through dictionaries and grammar books but couldn't find much info on the distinction between tissue/tissues. However, I decided that...

Nowadays, technology plays an important role to the consumer. Products should be modern and convenient for consumers/the consumer because the consumer pays more attention to the most convenient products.On the contrary, production of modern products neglects the aeffects to/it has on the...

Hi, Jorege ------------------------------ i have a questions : If you have only one question -------------- I have a question. (singular) If you have more than one question ---------I have questions. (plural) 1- what is different between : i say : he likes copffee or he is like coffee...

Mayo, mustard, lettuce (as used here), salt and pepper are uncountable and that's why there's no article.To be strictly logical, "tomatoes" should refer to whole tomatoes, while we should say "tomato" to mean slices of tomato. The same applies to "red onions". Still, it doesn't sound bad in the...

1) Messieurs is correct and messeurs is a mis-spelling. Messieurs is French. 2/3) In English we do not use messieurs. We only use the abbreviation - Messrs (pronounced messers). Messrs is just the plural for Mr. It occassionally gets used in company names and so on, or if you are referring to...

While antelopes is accepted as a plural, my experience of the word is that people don't use that form much. At least I don't. Like deer, fish, and sheep, antelope serves as both the singular and the plural form. Many antelope are gathering near the watering hole. Perhaps I am influenced...