Re: Photo with photo's?

Here Here Tony!
You tell 'em!

Photo is, indeed, an abbreviation of photograph and apostrophes have their
place in some abbreviations (e.g. them and 'em, if you like) but in this
use, it's clearly ridiculous, as you have so skilfully pointed out and
second only to the perennial abuse of the apostrophe in it/its/it's.

It's a nice day (for it is)
The dog had wolfed its dinner (possessive - but no apostrophe)

Even auto-correction in MS Word gets this right.

Ian



"Tony" <tspadaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Then your name would be shortened to Hobb's.
> The apostrophy denotes possession as in the rather clumsy sentence - We
> did not know the photo's subject.
> plural is NEVER denote by an apstrophy. Were you a fan of The Beatle's?
> or the Rolling Stone's? Did you go to the lot to look at used car's? Was
> your last ice cream cone two scoop's? Nope. Nope Nope. Nope Nope Nope.
>
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> "Tim Hobbs" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >Lots. And by the way, the plural of "photo" is ALWAYS "photos" (no
>> >apostrophe), reglardless of the context
>> >
>> >
>>
>> "Photo's" is perfectly valid - the apostrophe denotes the missing
>> letters in the word "photograph".
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tim Hobbs
>>
>> '58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
>> '77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
>> '03 Volvo V70
>
>


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