PSA: plural words don’t have apostrophes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.

My autocorrect on my phone does insane things. For instance, back when I was in the thick of under-5 childcare, I discovered my phone hates the word "nannies" and will correct it every time to "Nanny's". How does my phone not understand the plural form of the word nanny, or that it's most commonly used as a job title, not a first name? Is my phone Irish?

Anyway, this is why complaining about typos like that on DCUM makes no sense. I frequently post comments on here riddled with typos because I am dashing something off on my phone without proofreading and it's a dumb little machine.

My phone often autocorrects the word "any" (even when that is the word I intended to write) to the name Amy. I do know a couple Amys but I don't interact with them often -- just very occasional texts. So it's not like my daughter's name or something where you could understand why my phone might assume I meant to write the name.

It also will autofill the name Thea when I write "the" sometimes. My daughter does have a friend with this name so I do type it with some frequency but also it's very strange for a program to see the letters t-h-e and to assume the writer intended anything other than one of the most common words in the English language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These types of thread’s are so annoying.

I see what you did there!

But disagree. They are helpful reminders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dates are not an exception. Using an apostrophe makes a date possessive, not plural or an abbreviation.

"I went to college in the 1980s."

"I listen to 80's music."

Shouldn't it be '80s music?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dates are not an exception. Using an apostrophe makes a date possessive, not plural or an abbreviation.

"I went to college in the 1980s."

"I listen to 80's music."

Shouldn't it be '80s music?

We usually don't prefix years with zeros. They could have meant 80AD. That's my reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aside from a few narrow exceptions (acronyms, dates), one makes a word plural with -s or -es.

No apostrophes needed.

Thank you.

Can you provide an example of these exceptions?

My examples (without apostrophes):

"Everybody knows that neighborhood is loaded with MAGAs."

"My family came to the United States in the 1790s."

Thank you. This looks good. I hate it when people throw apostrophes in here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.

My autocorrect on my phone does insane things. For instance, back when I was in the thick of under-5 childcare, I discovered my phone hates the word "nannies" and will correct it every time to "Nanny's". How does my phone not understand the plural form of the word nanny, or that it's most commonly used as a job title, not a first name? Is my phone Irish?

Anyway, this is why complaining about typos like that on DCUM makes no sense. I frequently post comments on here riddled with typos because I am dashing something off on my phone without proofreading and it's a dumb little machine.

My phone often autocorrects the word "any" (even when that is the word I intended to write) to the name Amy. I do know a couple Amys but I don't interact with them often -- just very occasional texts. So it's not like my daughter's name or something where you could understand why my phone might assume I meant to write the name.

It also will autofill the name Thea when I write "the" sometimes. My daughter does have a friend with this name so I do type it with some frequency but also it's very strange for a program to see the letters t-h-e and to assume the writer intended anything other than one of the most common words in the English language.

My phone does this every single time when I text! “The” becomes “Theo”, “he” or “her” becomes “Heather”, and “that” becomes “Thatcher”. I know people with these names but only text them a few times a year. It dives me bonkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dates are not an exception. Using an apostrophe makes a date possessive, not plural or an abbreviation.

"I went to college in the 1980s."

"I listen to 80's music."

Shouldn't it be '80s music?

We usually don't prefix years with zeros. They could have meant 80AD. That's my reading.

Love a kickin' kinnor solo. A little Canaan Duran maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.

My autocorrect on my phone does insane things. For instance, back when I was in the thick of under-5 childcare, I discovered my phone hates the word "nannies" and will correct it every time to "Nanny's". How does my phone not understand the plural form of the word nanny, or that it's most commonly used as a job title, not a first name? Is my phone Irish?

Anyway, this is why complaining about typos like that on DCUM makes no sense. I frequently post comments on here riddled with typos because I am dashing something off on my phone without proofreading and it's a dumb little machine.

My phone often autocorrects the word "any" (even when that is the word I intended to write) to the name Amy. I do know a couple Amys but I don't interact with them often -- just very occasional texts. So it's not like my daughter's name or something where you could understand why my phone might assume I meant to write the name.

It also will autofill the name Thea when I write "the" sometimes. My daughter does have a friend with this name so I do type it with some frequency but also it's very strange for a program to see the letters t-h-e and to assume the writer intended anything other than one of the most common words in the English language.

My phone does this every single time when I text! “The” becomes “Theo”, “he” or “her” becomes “Heather”, and “that” becomes “Thatcher”. I know people with these names but only text them a few times a year. It dives me bonkers.

+1
I see it on here quite a bit from phone posters but everyone can rest assured that it's not outing that your phone typed in "Thea" because it can truly be a name you have typed in once vs. your kid's name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.

What's the difference? And who cares except the OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.

What's the difference? And who cares except the OP?

Its is a possessive pronoun. It's is a contraction for it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.

My autocorrect on my phone does insane things. For instance, back when I was in the thick of under-5 childcare, I discovered my phone hates the word "nannies" and will correct it every time to "Nanny's". How does my phone not understand the plural form of the word nanny, or that it's most commonly used as a job title, not a first name? Is my phone Irish?

Anyway, this is why complaining about typos like that on DCUM makes no sense. I frequently post comments on here riddled with typos because I am dashing something off on my phone without proofreading and it's a dumb little machine.

My phone often autocorrects the word "any" (even when that is the word I intended to write) to the name Amy. I do know a couple Amys but I don't interact with them often -- just very occasional texts. So it's not like my daughter's name or something where you could understand why my phone might assume I meant to write the name.

It also will autofill the name Thea when I write "the" sometimes. My daughter does have a friend with this name so I do type it with some frequency but also it's very strange for a program to see the letters t-h-e and to assume the writer intended anything other than one of the most common words in the English language.

My phone does this every single time when I text! “The” becomes “Theo”, “he” or “her” becomes “Heather”, and “that” becomes “Thatcher”. I know people with these names but only text them a few times a year. It dives me bonkers.

My phone likes to change the word back to the word BDSM. Thankfully, I've caught it every time so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.

What's the difference? And who cares except the OP?

Its is a possessive pronoun. It's is a contraction for it is.

+1. People confuse "whose" with "who's" often as well.

The lion injured its paw.
It's time for dinner.

Whose slipper is this?
Who's calling me at this hour?

[Anonymous]

thank's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.

My autocorrect on my phone does insane things. For instance, back when I was in the thick of under-5 childcare, I discovered my phone hates the word "nannies" and will correct it every time to "Nanny's". How does my phone not understand the plural form of the word nanny, or that it's most commonly used as a job title, not a first name? Is my phone Irish?

Anyway, this is why complaining about typos like that on DCUM makes no sense. I frequently post comments on here riddled with typos because I am dashing something off on my phone without proofreading and it's a dumb little machine.

My phone often autocorrects the word "any" (even when that is the word I intended to write) to the name Amy. I do know a couple Amys but I don't interact with them often -- just very occasional texts. So it's not like my daughter's name or something where you could understand why my phone might assume I meant to write the name.

It also will autofill the name Thea when I write "the" sometimes. My daughter does have a friend with this name so I do type it with some frequency but also it's very strange for a program to see the letters t-h-e and to assume the writer intended anything other than one of the most common words in the English language.

My phone does this every single time when I text! “The” becomes “Theo”, “he” or “her” becomes “Heather”, and “that” becomes “Thatcher”. I know people with these names but only text them a few times a year. It dives me bonkers.

My phone likes to change the word back to the word BDSM. Thankfully, I've caught it every time so far.

Oh dear—bad phone!

[Anonymous]

Except when you use the possessive of the plural.