Seeking Grammar Police Ruling - Typo's
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Jun 1 23:19:00 UTC 2008
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> Got into a discussion at Orson Scott Card's Hatrack forums.
> We were discussing a completely different subject and at the
> bottom of my post, I added that I was going to go back and fix
> the "typo's" in my previous post.
<snip>
> Now, without a doubt, 'typos' is the more common usage by a
> wide margin, but it being common doesn't make me wrong.
>
> Anyone care to weigh in on whether "typo's" is or is not a
> valid contraction of 'typographical errors'? ...Carol?
Geoff:
I would agree partly with Carol that "typo's" would be the
possessive form of "typo" but it could also be the contracted form
of '"typo is'". For example: "His typo's completely changing the
sense of the statement."
No way could it be a plural.
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