The plural of vinyl is vinyls

The plural of dumb thread is dumb threads.

.

 

I tried to read all 20 previous pages but my brain was full after the first 10 or so, so forgive me if this has already been said but since we have 45's, 78's, the 1980's, etc., the plural of vinyl is obviously vinyl's. Just sayin'... (ducks for cover...)

 

Because back in the Middle Ages, that's exactly what they were.

Why Do We Say “A Pair of Pants”?

 

Time for me to pour petroleum on the bonfire that this thread is.....You're all wrong.... Edison himself called them "phonograph discs"!

I've always called them "LP's" which is equally as daft as "Vinyls" when you think about it, .... "come and see my collection of 'long playings'".... what nonsense (unless of course it's a euphemism from Benny Hill...)

A 'record' is also incorrect, that's a noun for an instance of historical fact.... "you can read the historical record of what happened in the trial" and also a verb as in "to record someones speech in an interview".

Album could be correct if you only had books of 78's Which leads me to another daft phrase, in the commonwealth countries we say "I've got a good collection of 45's" but never "I've got a good collection of 33's"... wonder why that is...

(p.s. to all you Yanks out there 'gasolene' is wrong as well, petroleum is literally a liquid and not a 'gas' )

 

The plural of equipment is equipments, so I guess anything goes.

 

Glad to see at least someone has got it right:
https://www.implant.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Vinyl-pressing-Australia.jpg

- Tony

 

Then theres the issue of inviting people in to flick through a 12" collection,can get disturbing.

 

We call them 45s simply because they are not the default. The faster speed is what distinguishes them from the default disc, which spins at 33 1/3 RPM. Also, I think "record" to mean a vinyl disc with a sound recording on it is fairly well established.

 

Language usage marches on, regardless whether one is in the band.

 

I need to get some new vinyls.

 

When the records really made of wax were cylinders.

 

Why, when you buy pants half off, do you get both legs?

 

"Equipment" is already plural. The singular is "a piece of equipment."

 

crack up

 

This **** still ploppin'?

 

No...the plural of vinyl is vinyl!

 

Then what is "equipments"? I hear it used all the time.

PS: I regularly use the word equipment as a plural too.

 

Edison didn't invent those.

 

Yup. I think it was Emile Berliner, a German-American-Jewish guy.

Far as Edison goes, dude was kind of a douche, and tried to take credit for inventing just about everything.
.

 

I didn't say he did. Are you getting mixed up with Gramophone 'record' discs? (The product 'invented' by Emile Berliner). The phrase 'Phonograph disc' is a specific marketing phrase used by Edison when he eventually gave up and joined the various disc manufacturers.

The point of mine was to contrast the word 'record' which before both Gramaphone 'record discs' and 'Phonograph 'record discs' existed there were a number of the cylinder manufacturers already calling their media 'records' despite being cylindrical in nature, so there's an earlier association with cylinders long before discs for the word 'record'. (e.g. the marketing product names "Edison Standard Records").

 

Er, no! And not is it 45's, 78's, the 1980's, etc. It is 45s, 78s, 1980s unless there is some form of possessive sense in which case the usual approach is to rewrite in simpler terms!
As @Cyclone Ranger said at the top of this page.

 

And they weren't vinyl. Vinyl records were launched in 1948, they are a different format.

The first audio recording and reproduction machine was his though.

 

I remember taping my vinyls to numerous cassetti tapes, those were the days.