Sep 11, 2023 · My last name has two occurrences of the letter "s" in it, so in speech I tell people all the time that it's spelled "with two esses". However I don't know how to express such a thing in writing.

Apr 28, 2016 · 2 You can avoid the confusion by pluralizing the name of the letter, ess, into esses. She spent the afternoon ignoring the professor and drawing idly in her notebook, languidly doodling esses …

Feb 24, 2020 · Wiktionary lists several sources that use "Ees"/"ees" for the plural of the letter name, both old and modern. It does note that this usage is rare. For example, the book The Grammar of …

Sep 4, 2015 · The process-eez pronunciation is a hypercorrection, based on the misconception that process belongs to the other class of plurals which you've identified. Latin singular nouns ending in …

In case Lambie's astute observation in a comment beneath the posted question gets deleted at some point, I want to second the observation that "in the essence of time" is a kind of mashup of two …

What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym? asked about pluralising acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms, but is there a standard way to add verb endings e.g. -ing and -ed (what are these c...

Nov 8, 2010 · When you put the 2 ‘esses’ in - ie ‘focussed’ - the double ‘s’ ‘protects’ the ‘u’, and keeps it sounding soft, like the ‘u’ in ‘us’. This applies to many words and is really why we have double …

Apr 28, 2016 · When writing (a blog post, script, etc..) what is the proper way to indicate two or more instances of a single letter? For instance, in Monty Python's Bookshop Sketch: C: I wonder if you …

Feb 10, 2011 · When a writer uses parentheses to define a phrase or clarify a word in a sentence, is it appropriate also to use i.e. in the parentheses? That use seems redundant to me.

Through means going in or starting at one side and coming out or stopping at the other side of: a path through the wood Throughout means in every part of (a place or object) There is a good deal of …