Pluralizing SVX

[subeman90]

Originally Posted by RSVX

been discussed ad-nauseum, a search is in order.

yeah but what was old is "new" again.

[SilverSpear]

Originally Posted by ensteele

I use SVXes.

You literally do!

[ensteele]

Originally Posted by SilverSpear

You literally do!

Yes, Yes I do!

[Hondasucks]

Originally Posted by dcarrb

SVXs, no apostrophe. Plural means more than one, while an apostrophe conveys possession: There are two SVXs in the SVX's garage.

dcb

Technically in that sense, the apostrophe would come AFTER the S, since the garage belongs to both cars. Like the house that belongs to your parents, is your parents' house, since parents is plural, if you said parent's house, it would imply that it belongs to only one parent :P Also, the e is in there before the S cuz the word ends in X, the same as certain other words like clutch(es). That one does have a rule too but I don't know it off the top of my head and my wife is busy with homework, but basically think of how you say it, you don't say "clutchs" you say "clutch-ezz". When my wife is not doing homework I'll dig out here little grammar rule book and find it.

[NikFu S.]

I say SVXi because I just prefer to not use an 's' sound right after an 'x' sound.

"eSVeeeX-iz"
Gross.

"eSVeeeX-ee"
:thumbs:

"eSVeeeX-ai"
You're doing it wrong.

[svxistentialist]

Great thread.

Grammer nazis rool.

[LarryIII]

I like SVXes; as in 'people that own SVXes are called SVXers'.

[dcarrb]

Originally Posted by Hondasucks

Technically in that sense, the apostrophe would come AFTER the S, since the garage belongs to both cars. Like the house that belongs to your parents, is your parents' house, since parents is plural, if you said parent's house, it would imply that it belongs to only one parent :P Also, the e is in there before the S cuz the word ends in X, the same as certain other words like clutch(es). That one does have a rule too but I don't know it off the top of my head and my wife is busy with homework, but basically think of how you say it, you don't say "clutchs" you say "clutch-ezz". When my wife is not doing homework I'll dig out here little grammar rule book and find it.

Correct, if something belongs to more than one, it is indeed s-apostrophe.

On the add-an-e thing, you're probably right. I was a solid "D" student in high school English. Grammatical rules make my head swim, so I make my own.

They you have folks who think they're covering all the bases by adding an apostrophe before EVERY S: Sunday's, peach's, banana's...

dcb

[svxistentialist]

Originally Posted by LarryIII

I like SVXes; as in 'people that own SVXes are called SVXers'.

Well Larry, we could reasonably use the possessive in this case, such as SVX'rs.

Because the cars own us!

Joe