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Another opinion... From the Gregg Reference Manual: When words taken from other parts of speech are used as nouns, they are usually pluralized by the addition of s or es. Ifs, ands, or buts Dos and don’ts Yeses and nos Ins and outs Ups and downs Yeas and nays Pros and...

--- There was formerly a respectable tradition (17-19c) of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in a vowel (as in We do confess Errata's, Leonard Lichfield, 1641, and Comma's are used, Philip Luckcombe, 1771) and in the consonants s, z, ch, sh, (as in waltz's and...

Hi, Point well taken. All I can do is throw myself on the mercy of the APOSTROPHE PROTECTION SOCIETY and have my counsel enter a plea in mitigation: My Lords, My client deeply regrets 'shooting from the hip' in this matter. As regards the rude insertion of an apostrophe, he acknowledges the...

Dear Gniagnia, The others are: ' apostrophe ` grave accent & ampersand ^ caret if it is alone, circumflex if it is on a vowel / forward slash or solidus \ back slash or reverse solidus [ left square bracket { left curly bracket ( left parenthesis You may open Character Map and...

I am continually stunned by the fact that so few sources seem to realise the logic that lies behind their own rules. I have heard whacky rules that suggests that ancient or biblical names ending with s are exceptions, or words of more than one syllable ending with s. The 'eez' thing here is at...

Hello Xpi0t0s I have some sympathy with your line of argument, and think your friend should be soundly scolded. To judge by the road signs local councils put up in my area, contraction is pretty much a free-for-all. It seems to depend on the point at which the sign-maker suddenly realizes he's...

It's known as the grocer's aspostrophe: sandwich's = sandwiches. The apostrophe (') represents the vowel "e". If the writer/speaker wasn't sure if s/he should add -es or -s to form the plural, s/he found an ingenious way around it by using an apostrophe instead, and that process wasn't just...