Pluralize

For the record, it's also not correct to use apostrophes to pluralize decades. ❋ Tyler (2009)

According to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab, there is one case when it's permissable to use an apostrophe to pluralize something. ❋ Tyler (2009)

IFOT speculates that the source of the problem is that our general culture still valorizes a Romantic model of artistic production that equates the text (or song, etc) with the author's own feelings and is very resistant to models of aesthetic signification that complicate or pluralize the possible meanings in a text. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Car owners, marketers, and automotive writers have been confounded as to the proper way to pluralize Toyota Prius since the first-generation sedan helped introduce hybrid cars to the mainstream, beginning with the 2001 model year in the United States. ❋ Unknown (2011)

(I would also comment that I have NEVER seen anyone use an apostrophe to pluralize denominations of bills.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Of us" is a prepositional phrase and therefore "us," though referring to many instead of one, cannot pluralize the verb form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the past, we have avoided referring to the Toyota Prius in the plural, as there was no comfortable way to pluralize the car name. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's very difficult to get my Japanese clients to not pluralize nouns modifying other nouns. ❋ DC (2010)

Computers are smart enough to understand if a word is plural, and can even make guesses to the proper way to pluralize words (at least in English), and transforming a string to all lower case, all upper case, and title case are part of almost every programming language out there (or at least they are part of the tutorials in learning the language). ❋ Joshenglish (2008)

Of course, there may be other people out there with the same last name as me who choose to pluralize it “Rhodeses”. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Theory wasn't being used to pluralize, to see that there was theory everywhere you looked, and everywhere you listened. ❋ Enowning (2009)

Today a colleague sent around a prototype of an application that takes any string and attempts to pluralize it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I think the apostrophe is justified when you pluralize something that is not strictly a word. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The information explosion could work either to multiply or pluralize information or cancel all meaning in a meaningless noise; it could enhance literary skills or deaden them; it could decentralize information so that all people have easy and equal access, or it could further the control and domination of ruling elites who monopolise information and computer teacnologies ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, in summary, pluralize these as follows: most nouns: no apostrophe lowercase letters: apostrophe uppercase letters: either words as words: either numerals: either abbreviations ending in periods: apostrophe abbreviations without periods: either ❋ Unknown (2007)

Im going to pluralize you [rabbit]. Those [animals] just [pluralized] themselves. ❋ C Gibberdash (2008)

[Stay] [plural] [my friends]. ❋ Lay Z Lost Boi (2014)

"This is my friend, they're [plural] so sometimes they will [switch] to [someone else]!" ❋ Slaughterofangels (2022)

[How are you going] to fit all [seven] friends in that little car?" "Oh, they're a plural and only take [up one] seat! ❋ The JC Klatch (2010)

1: The plural of cat is cats. Duck is ducks. Book is books. 2: "Apple's and [orange's] [on sale]" is incorrect. "[Apples and oranges] on sale", however, is. ❋ Major Sterrance (2007)

There are [several] online communities [run by] [plurals]. ❋ Jay Young (2005)

there are 0 cats in the room. there are 3 cats in the room. The phrase "there is 1 cat in the room" is an example of [plural's] counterpart, [singular]. Two [halves] are better than one, even though two halves is equal to one. While one half is singular, two halves is plural. And we wouldn't say "two halves are plural". Yet, two halves are one, is fine. ❋ Phlexicon (2007)

Plurals ❋ Hiscaucasianqueen (2010)

[The way] you talk to [authority] [figures] is so plural dude. ❋ Brandonious (2005)

That [concert] was [plural]! ❋ GingerKarisma (2009)