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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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The plural I use is Cooper S's.

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Yep Cooper S's


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... or maybe Coopers S. :shock:

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

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


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winabbey wrote:


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

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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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Curly wrote:
I like it winabbey :D and also think ..." a group of Minis Cooper S" .... might also be an option :?


Could also move this around to be Cooper S Minis

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


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 ....

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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.

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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.


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winabbey wrote:
The plural I use is Cooper S's.


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

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DavidE wrote:
winabbey wrote:
The plural I use is Cooper S's.


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

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


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rathgar wrote:
DavidE wrote:
winabbey wrote:
The plural I use is Cooper S's.


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.


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

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