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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

515 GG Home vs. Away? How to Make Product Names Plural

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Away Versus Home? A listener named Alan wrote, “When using the word versus, does it make a difference as to what is placed before and what is placed after? For example: Roe versus Wade or Red Sox versus Yankees. In other words, by rule is one the challenger, and the other the challenged?” How to Make Product Names Plural: Two Silicon Valley guys were talking on Twitter about whether they should say they have two iPad Pros or two iPads Pro. Then Schiller jumped in to say: “One need never pluralize Apple product names. Ex: Mr. Evans used two iPad Pro devices.” People on Twitter generally seemed to think this seemed ridiculous and Business Insider, Mac Rumors, and others turned it into a story. Woohoo, Twitter spat! SPONSORS http://audible.com/gg http://weebly.com/grammar AMAZON AFFILIATE CODE http://quickanddirtytips.com/amazon FOLLOW GRAMMAR GIRL Twitter: http://twitter.com/grammargirl Facebook: http://facebook.com/grammargirl Snapchat: http://snapchat.com/add/thatgrammargirl Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl Instagram: http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl

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Grammar Girl here, I'm Minion Faguri and this week I have a quick and dirty tip about how

0:10.6

to write about a legal or sporting match, a meeting middle about making product names

0:15.8

plural and two featured listeners.

0:19.2

And now onto match ups.

0:22.0

A listener named Alan wrote, when using the word verses, does it make a difference as

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to what's placed before and what's placed after?

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For example, Roe vs. Wade or Red Sox vs. Yankees.

0:36.3

In other words, by rule is one the challenger and the other the challenged?

0:41.5

Well Alan, the court case part is easy.

0:44.4

The standard format is plaintiff vs. defendant.

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The plaintiff is the person or entity doing this suing.

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The one who makes the complaint, the one who brings the lawsuit.

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The defendant is the person or entity that is being sued.

1:01.4

Often for lawsuits, versus is abbreviated with a lower case v, followed by a period.

1:07.8

That's AP style.

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So in Alan's example, Roe is the plaintiff and Wade is the defendant and it's written

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Roe v Wade.

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When you get to sports, it's more complicated because it varies by country.

1:23.0

In the United States, the home team is usually written second, in other words, away versus

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home.

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So, if the Chicago Bulls are playing the Los Angeles Lakers, in Los Angeles, you'd see

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the game described as Bulls vs. Lakers because the Lakers are the home team.

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