Actually my tongue was in my cheek there - just stirring However it is a commonly seen mistake (aka the grocer's apostrophe...) - and some folk are a bit hit and miss, see here: http://editorial.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/nearly.jpg - Tony
Hey I bought a few polyvinylchlorides today. I am playing them right now on my audio gears. They are mono so I am using my headphone.
Thought you said that your first comment was tongue in cheek. Finding an incorrect source to justify your error does not render it correct.
No it doesn't... however it does demonstrate that the error is easily made, including on this forum, and generally passes through uncorrected. Possibly not to a degree that it eventually will become "accepted usage" (evolving language) I agree, although if it did, it would not be the first time something incorrect becomes correct via that route... Anyway I am sure I have made my point, which was initially to inject a little humour, while using irony to point out another usage that can be encountered on occasion, as we have seen. Not correct, but maybe neither is "vinyls". Hoping I have not caused any offence - enjoy the next 20 pages of discussions to come!
Thank you. Greengrocer apostrophes bother me more than over pluralization. The Greengrocer's Apostrophe
Clearly its not! It's CDs and vinyl (not vinyls and absolutely not vinyl's, which simply compounds the error). No, LPs.
No, seriously. I hear it used frequently in vintage technical military/government films on YouTube. I've also heard it used in more recent YouTube videos to describe 'more than one piece of equipment'. I've heard some Asian commentators use the word. I wish I could recall specifically which ones. I think it's a weird usage, which is why I mentioned it in the context of the thread about 'vinyls'.
If it wasn't official before, now Project is using "vinyls": Vinyl NRS Box S3 – Pro-Ject Audio Systems Not taking a side -- just continue to find the change interesting.
