Comments on: The Word is Photos NOT Photo’s

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:13:15 +0000

I tend to agree with Phil. Though I would probably use Photos but it wouldn’t drive me crazy because it is a contraction of the word photographs.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:08:04 +0000

But is Photo’s not a contraction of photographs?

By: Stuee

Stuee — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:35:14 +0000

Adam W (No.45) has a point. Apostrophes can be used for plurals in some cases, especially for certain abbreviations or to clarify things for the reader…

e.g. 1
There are two i’s in skiing and three a’s in aardvark.

e.g. 2
He sent four SOS’s before anyone responded.

By: Phill

Phill — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:31:31 +0000

Actually photo’s can be correct. Photo isn’t actually a true word, it is a shortened form of photograph, because of it’s popular use, photo has become mainstreamed into the English language. So yes, photos is correct when you consider photo a word. If you would like to use completely correct English, then one would use the word photograph and when saying photo, it would just be a shortened version. Then proper English grammar sets in and you would use an apostrophe to connect the last letter of the pluralized form of photograph, the s, to the shortened form of the main word, photo. Hence, photo’s which is the same thing as photographs. English professor here, it’s been disputed a lot because of the confusion of photo being a word or not.

By: Tamara Kenyon

Tamara Kenyon — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:40:02 +0000

I cannot expres’s how much it bother’s me when people put apostrophe’s in the wrong place’s.

BIGGEST PET PEEVE EVER! I also hate when people put there their and they’re in the wrong context as well.

By: Dianne

Dianne — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:17:36 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Apostrophe misuse drives me crazy!!! I absolutely love your line, “An apostrophe does not mean ‘warning – an ’s’ is coming.’” I may have to use it.