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[Dwight FitzSimons]

Would you please correct the spelling of the heading "Avanti's For Sale".  The plural of a noun does not have an apostrophe (').  One simply adds an (s) at the end of the noun.

So, the heading should be the following: "Avantis For Sale". 

Thanks,

--Dwight FitzSimons, AOAI member continuously since the late 1960s, and Editor of Greater Va Chapter of SDC.

[ronmanfredi]

2 hours ago, Dwight FitzSimons said:

Would you please correct the spelling of the heading "Avanti's For Sale".  The plural of a noun does not have an apostrophe (').  One simply adds an (s) at the end of the noun.

So, the heading should be the following: "Avantis For Sale". 

Thanks,

--Dwight FitzSimons, AOAI member continuously since the late 1960s, and Editor of Greater Va Chapter of SDC.

Dwight, I run my comments through Word and spell check.  Last night it showed correct, so I ran it again today and it shows Avantis as being an error and Avanti's being correct.

[psdenno]

53 minutes ago, ronmanfredi said:

Dwight, I run my comments through Word and spell check.  Last night it showed correct, so I ran it again today and it shows Avantis as being an error and Avanti's being correct.

Probably just confusion by an English spell check dealing with the plural version of the Italian word Avanti.  "Avanti's" would be the possessive form of "Avanti" as in "This is my Avanti's spare tire."

 

[Dwight FitzSimons]

31 minutes ago, psdenno said:

Probably just confusion by an English spell check dealing with the plural version of the Italian word Avanti.  "Avanti's" would be the possessive form of "Avanti" as in "This is my Avanti's spare tire."

 

I agree with psdenno.  Word and spellcheck don't check for errors like "Avanti's For Sale".  You would have to use a grammar checker.

Also, "Avanti's" can also mean "Avanti is...."  An example: The Avanti's running now, OR The Avanti is running now.  That is called a contraction.

Avanti is a loan word; i.e., an Italian word borrowed from the Italian language into the English language.  So, once the word Avanti is accepted into the English language the rules of English apply to it (not Italian rules).  There are many loan words in the English language.

Here is AI's answer (to pluralizing a noun):

 To make a noun plural, follow these guidelines:

    Add "s" to most nouns (e.g., cat → cats).
    For nouns ending in "s," "x," "z," "ch," or "sh," add "es" (e.g., box → boxes).
    Change "y" to "ies" for nouns ending in a consonant + "y" (e.g., baby → babies).
    For nouns ending in a vowel + "y," simply add "s" (e.g., toy → toys).
    Some nouns have irregular plural forms (e.g., man → men, child → children).
    For compound nouns, make the principal noun plural (e.g., mother-in-law → mothers-in-law).

So, if we were listing cats for sale on the AOAI Forum the heading would be "Cats For Sale".

The word Avanti is treated no differently than cats. So, the heading should be: "Avantis For Sale".

--Dwight