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How do I express the plural of a letter in writing? My last name has two occurrences of the letter "s" in it, so in speech I tell people all the time that it's spelled "with two esses" However I don't know how to express such a thing in writing
Plural of The Letter S - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 2 You can avoid the confusion by pluralizing the name of the letter, ess, into esses She spent the afternoon ignoring the professor and drawing idly in her notebook, languidly doodling esses and then turning them into dragons
Number agreement when using “ (s)” for optional plural I agree with Dave Nealon The plural form covers the singular meaning because it's used as a class For example, we say "one or more objects" to mean "one object or several objects" We read this quite naturally and have no problem with the lack of agreement in number implied by "one objects" As Dave points out, the plural doesn't preclude zero or one of the objects I find "one or more
When is the plural es pronounced ess ez izz vs. eez? The process-eez pronunciation is a hypercorrection, based on the misconception that process belongs to the other class of plurals which you've identified Latin singular nouns ending in -is are pluralized as -es '-eez': e g thesis, theses; axis, axes; metropolis, metropoles Some of them have only reached us in their plural forms: e g menses, testes
Entry(s) or Entrie(s)? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Sometimes you come across this format suggesting 'one or more', in not as many words, like "Please select the book(s) you wish to loan" But what happens in that case of plurals that don't follow the
grammatical number - the plural of the name of the letter e is ees . . . Wiktionary lists several sources that use "Ees" "ees" for the plural of the letter name, both old and modern It does note that this usage is rare For example, the book The Grammar of English Grammars (1851) describes "Ees" (and all other plural letter names) as "regular plurals", with "E" being the singular name of the letter They are writing out the letters (e g , "Kue" instead of "Q
Possessive case for a certain proper noun - ss apostrophe This is a style issue, not a matter of objective correctness or incorrectness Having said that, I note the advice that various style manuals offer From Words Into Type (1974): Proper names The possessive form of almost all proper names is formed by adding apostrophe and s to a singular or apostrophe alone to a plural By this style rule, you would express the plural of Ross as Ross's From
Focussed or focused? Rules for doubling the last consonant when . . . When you put the 2 ‘esses’ in - ie ‘focussed’ - the double ‘s’ ‘protects’ the ‘u’, and keeps it sounding soft, like the ‘u’ in ‘us’ This applies to many words and is really why we have double consonants in English The double consonant is there to tell you how to pronounce the word Examples: