Can anyone help with the correct written format/spelling for the plural of "Cooper S" ?
Is it, " A team of Cooper Ss ?", "Cooper esses?", "Cooper Ses?", or some other variation?

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Curly
'64 Cooper 'S' (Group Nb spec)
'67 Mini Marcos GT www.mm7056.wordpress.com

The plural I use is Cooper S's.

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ex-NSW Police 1970 MK II Cooper S
VMCI #43

Yep Cooper S's

... or maybe Coopers S.

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nou ... plural.htm

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ex-NSW Police 1970 MK II Cooper S
VMCI #43

You could add to it and make it, a group of seven Cooper S cars.

I like it winabbey and also think ..." a group of Minis Cooper S" .... might also be an option

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Curly
'64 Cooper 'S' (Group Nb spec)
'67 Mini Marcos GT www.mm7056.wordpress.com

The correct grammar would be Cooper S' with the apostrophe at the end but no following s.
However that would be pronounced "Cooper Esses"

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1970 Cooper S ex-Bathurst & ATCC
1964 Austin Cooper S ex-Group C race car
1967 Morris Cooper S ex-Group B
1962 Mini Speed sports sedan
1968-71 ex-Peter Manton Shell car

Could also move this around to be Cooper S Minis

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1964 998cc Cooper
1971 Mini K x 2
1972 Clubman GT

HHHhhhmmm, when I went to school an apostrophe designated possessive case.. definitely not a plural.

One fish, two fish... one Cooper S, two Cooper S ....

Cheers, Ian

This has always been a bone of contention and I don't think there is one clear correct answer.

However, I would not use Cooper S's or Cooper S' as that denotes possession. An apostrophe can also be used where letters are missing, such as in isn't or didn't, etc, but this is not the case here.

I tend to use the collective singular, as in one Cooper S, two Cooper S. But be careful that you don't get confused with one Cooper and two Coopers.

So, you could say, for example: The Cooper S's wheel came off and the three other Cooper S following dodged the errant wheel, but the two Coopers behind them both hit it.

I'm not saying I am 100% correct or that there is no other way to do it, but that is how I do it.

Many journalists use Cooper Ss and that is okay, as far as I am concerned, but not Cooper S's. I have been known to use Cooper Ss from time to time and have let a few through to the keeper - sometimes simply because that's the way the story was written for me.

So, really, I think Cooper S or Cooper Ss, but please, no apostrophe.

Cheers,
Watto.

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Watto .
Photojournalist
Mini historian and enthusiast
http://www.theminiexperience.com.au

Maybe the word that should be the plural is not the badge name but the actual item you are describing which is a car. Therefore it would be i saw a Cooper S car this morning and two Cooper S cars this afternoon.

That fits within the second rule of Sir Ernest Gowers book "The Complete Plain Words" for the use of apostrophes.

Cheers

Were there two people called Sir Ernest Gower that wrote books? Or was that Sir Ernest Gower's book?

Neither of those two.

So was it Gower's book, or Gowers' book, or Gowers's book?

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Photojournalist
Mini historian and enthusiast
http://www.theminiexperience.com.au