Seeking Grammar Police Ruling - Typo's

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > But that is my very point, I'm not saying that "'s" pluralizes
> > anything. I'm saying it /contracts/ a phrase already ending in
> > "s"; 'TYPOgraphical errorS'. 
> 
> Magpie:
> But the phrase doesn't end in an s unless it's plural. Typo is short 
> for TYPOgraphical error. So typo is the abbreviation and typos makes 
> that short form plural.

Geoff:
I would agree with Magpie on this one. Just to make my point, in a recent
post, I used a couple of abbreviated English words which are accepted as
the norm.... vet and exam. Their universally accepted plural forms are vets
and exams.