"You're doing it wrong"Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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hrm...I see three possibilities...
1) "Photo's" is a contraction, in which case the aposrophe is correct
2) "Photo's" is the plural of the abbreviation "photo", in which case the apostrophe is correct
3) bollocks, "photo" is used often enough to be considered a word in its own right, and the correct pluralisation is therefore "photos".
Dictionaries seem to go with the latter, but I reckon there's an argument to be made for any of the above.
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 22:07,
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eh?You don't use an apostrophe to denote a plural. Is this a pedantry trap?
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 15:01,
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sort of :)you can, in fact, use an apostrophe when pluralising an abbreviation. Otherwise, you're quite right - it's a horrible habit for which a special circle in hell is rightfully reserved.
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 20:41,
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