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 jailsea : Photos is the plural of photo, not the contracted version of photographs. You can't just remove letters from any word. 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 tomh : Hm. I have never heard of this. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head is that "its" is possessive. 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 Chris Nixon : I could also argue it's "fave my pic's" ;P 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 Wolfman-K : Are we really having a grammar discussion on a thursday morning? everyone drop this and go fave my pics :P crazy peoples...
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 Chris Nixon : @tomh It's a technicality but photos is actually a shortening of photographs, thus the apostrophe. I don't use it, but both are correct. 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 tomh : Two separate operations. 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 tomh : @Chris Nixon Who says that? Doesn't make sense. The s is added for pluralization after the shorting of photograph to photo. 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 Wolfman-K : slowdncr, don't you have a flower to photograph? freak'in westcoasters :P 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 Chris Nixon : The apostrophe is not there to signify plurality, but to signify the missing letters. 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 Chris Nixon : Just to confuse things, there is some argument for an apostrophe in photos as it's an abbreviation of photographs. Like "it's" for "it is" 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 slowdncr : That was a good one. Did it hurt? 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 Wolfman-K : "Sometimes tis wiser not to crack" --Wolfucious 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 slowdncr : Maybe that's where the expression wisecrack comes from, Wolf. 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 Wolfman-K : I was going to insert a wisecrack remark here but upon doing research to make sure it would be accurate , my head hurts.... :/ 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 floto. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe Apostrophes are not used for plural.... ever. :) 4 years, 2 months ago [Zipfox]
 TravelingRoths : I didn't think so either. I guess that rule is not widely known in America. 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 TravelingRoths : So it is "photos" and not "photo's". Good to know! 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
 floto. : photographs, as the singular should be photograph - Just we are lazy. So you could say photos! :) 4 years, 2 months ago [Zipfox]
 TravelingRoths : What's the plural of "photo" in English? 4 years, 2 months ago [Web]
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