True, Anonymous! Pluralized acronyms should not use apostrophes. As an experienced English Tutor/Mentor, apostrophes are used in possession of & in contractions (i.e., Jane's cat won't eat fish.) To place an apostrophe after an acronym or

Just like you do many other words ending in consonant + y: army's armies armies'

Ok, I deleted the other thread you started, since it's the same as this. Well, it depends if they are irregular or not. "Girl" is not irregular, so you can just add the 's': one girl, two girls. "Country" is not

I would strongly disagreee with Hoa Thai's assertion that French is relatively easy to learn and that is it spelled as it is sounded. It most certainly is not. There are loads of homophones in the language. For instance the 'ay' sound

Hi, I also have the same problem. I am not sure which sounds -s and -z on words: opens rides believes goes thanks, Gj Opens - Z rides - Z believes - Z goes - Z All Z sounds, because they all end with a voiced consonant, and "goes" ends

CB's explanation is 100% right on. It is a linguistic question dealing with phonology. By the way, the same principle is in play with the plural noun ending 's/es': 's' after a non-voiced consonant (lamps, desks); 'z'

I agree with Mandy. The distinction is between voiced consonants and vowels (b, v, m, etc.and vowles) and unvoiced consonants (p, f, k, etc.). So, kick -> kicksss, dog -> dogzzz, guy -> guyzzz. When you have a word that ends in S, the

Thank you very much CJ, Zerox, and Carson. You all have given me very valuable advices. After reading through all you said carefully, and then watching a couple of English TV programmes, I believe I can now tell the difference! The ending /z/ in

Anonymous wrote: Sadly I made a mistake in my previous posting: the correct phoneme symbol for the s's in 'houses' is indeed /z/, although of course English /z/ can be rather /s/-like. Hi, I am now confused even more than before. House is

Digger36 wrote: But what about the SPECIAL cases of the inflection on the 3-rd person singular; it seems less obvious, as in these cases .. he destroys / destroies sand dunes he trys / tries jumping high he carrys / carries the load