| ??? 09/15/07 09:17 Read: times |
#144641 - Contraction Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Russ Cooper said:
Man, you lost me somewhere. To me, contractions are words like "don't" and "can't" and "you'll" and "he's" and "it's", all formed by jamming two real words together and leaving out one or more letters. What in the world do you mean by "the plural of a contraction"? It all started with Andy Peters taking Richard to task on his use of an apostrophe in the plural of "typo" Andy Peters said:
Richard Erlacher said:
When I recently made the shift to FIREFOX, I found that it spell-checks and points out my typo's. Yeah, like the apostrophe you put between the slang word typo and the s, which is used to indicate plural. I suppose one could argue that that typo's is a contraction of typographical errors but that's reeeeeeeeally stretching it. I s'pose that "typo" might be better called an "abbreviation" than a "contraction" - in which case my point was about the plurals of abbreviations: I said: Thus I would write: typos - not typo's; LEDs - not LED's micros - not micro's |
