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Is it photos or photo's?

Some say it is photos when not possessive - easy to understand.

Some say it is photo's because it is contracted word from photographs - easy to understand.

But which is correct? Discuss!
 
Photos. It's a contraction of a single word. You only use an apostrophe for a contraction/concatenation of two or more words e.g. can't for can not, don't for do not and it's for it is.
 
photos = the shortened/abbreviated version of photographs, ie the plural of photo

photo's = of the photo, eg the photo's border is too prominent, the photo's moodiness is enhanced by the processing

Simples :thumbs:
 
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It's a major bugbear of mine - putting apostrophes to signify a plural... It's the same with using the incorrect spelling of a word. I was on another forum earlier and saw that someone had written 'hear' when they obviously meant 'here'... this is our English language, and I hate to see it *******ised by what seems to me to be nothing but ignorance and laziness. (And yes, that was '*******ised' with an 's' and not a 'z'!)
 
It's only photo's when it's taken with a lens. :lol:
 
What's wrong with going longhand and using Photographs? I'm as lazt as they come (and a bad typist) but still tend to use longhand rather than contractions, even when sending texts.
 
Roger, don't get onto the whole lens thing. I keep wanting to put in my signature that it is lens not lens but don't want to cause offence. I also don't like people who shoot with a Cannon as I know someone is going to get hurt in that situation, even if it is only a small pocket one!
 
although searching for Cannon camera or Cannon lens on ebay does sometime's turn up a bargain or two from the nitwit's :cuckoo:
 
No, it's

gheauteaus

(with credit to William Ollier)
 
my nephew used to teach English in Paris

used to write on the blackboard

''A cat with nine lives lives on our street''....translate please............CHAOS..:D
 
QUIZ
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construct a sentence with the word ''and'' used consecutively 5 times in a row
 
Yardbent said:
QUIZ
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construct a sentence with the word ''and'' used consecutively 5 times in a row
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And and and and and I also apologise about my st-st-stutter :thumbs:
 
Yardbent said:
QUIZ
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construct a sentence with the word ''and'' used consecutively 5 times in a row
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Do I need to put a hyphen between the words "Fish" and "And" and "And" and "Chips" on my Fish-And-Chips sign"?
 
Yardbent said:
QUIZ
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construct a sentence with the word ''and'' used consecutively 5 times in a row
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could you please change the spacing between dog and "and" and "and" and partridge :)

my turn, fill in the blanks

The ----- surgeon was ----- to perform the operation as there was -----

same 7 letters in the same order :)
 
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Carlos68 said:
could you please change the spacing between dog and "and" and "and" and partridge :)

my turn, fill in the blanks

The ----- surgeon was ----- to perform the operation as there was -----

same 5 letters in the same order :)
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Lead ;)
 
Yardbent said:
QUIZ
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construct a sentence with the word ''and'' used consecutively 5 times in a row
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Presumably the ethics committee would have an issue with and in the context of an electronic gate.

I can get 7 "had"s in a row if that helps.
 
An apostrophe is the difference between "a business that knows its ****" and "a business that knows it's ****".

I don't know who said it, but I like it!
 
OK no apostrophes but what about the shortened version for mathematics. Is it "maths" (the one I've been used to) or "math" (the one seemingly coming from the States)?

And before anybody points it out, I know I've shortened the last word down to "States" :)
 
I liked one of the comments on the first link.....
I cannot see what the issue is. I am Scottish but like you Americans I have to submit to the fact that English belongs to to England. The language as spoken and written in the UK is English and must be considered as correct. Therefore since we say MATHS then MATHS is correct.
The Kiwis and the Ozzies use UK English. If America wants to create a new version of English with diferent spelling and different pronunciation then why not just call it American and be done with it.
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Well said :clap:
 
The English language is such a complicated one...

I was told that one of the tests for high-functioning autism (Asperger's) is to see if the patient can understand the difference in overall meaning if you give them the following sentence...

"I told him not to do that"

...and tell them to put the emphasis on a different word each time it's read out.
 
I thought we had to call them 'captures' now, just to make ourselves sound even more smug and deluded. Rather like calling an older model camera 'classic'! ;)
 
Kerioak said:
I have a lot of captures that got away though, what would they be called ?
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"escapee's"
(with or without the apostrophe" :D)
 
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