Ho's gets an apostrophe.
Terry_Clubbup
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Staright from Honkey Hollow! It is your boy, Strunken White[/b],here to dish out some advance grammaticals.You can choose to spell it ho[/b] or hoe[/b], that is your choice.But when it comes time to pluralize "Ho", that is to say, when youwant to talk about more than one ho at a time, you must addan apostrophe, making it "Ho's".Now, you may say, this runs contrary to the rules of English grammar.I am here to tell you that this is an exception to the rules.You know like, i before e, except after "C", i.e. Ceira lookslike a dude? No really, English is a mongrel language of many complexitiesand exceptions, so accept this, please.Why?In order so that it reads right. If you are reading off a page oryour screen or a hat and you see "hos", then your mind's innear speakeris pronouncing that "hoss" and you have lost the meaning, you are theone caught laughing a second late, looking around wondering why everyoneelse is laughing.Take it from Strunken White: when it comes time to pluralize your "ho",please say the apostrophe.
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the plural possessive of ho's = ho's'??
No, I think you're the one that's about to get rained on.
Exactly--since when can a ho own anything? No ownership = no need for a possessive form.
As a Grandmaster Dialectician and Head Buckaroo of the Grammar Rodeo, though, I must protest the Strunken White proposal. Using apostrophes to form plurals is never acceptable.
I propose HOs. Just like that, for emphasis.
Oh, but I begg to differ:[/b]
I think it's hoes. Am I that disconnected?
You might smell like Donald Duck, but you spell like Dan Quayle.[/b]
You want to get fancy, then tell your boss you got Hosiery Duty.
And you ain't coming in tomorrow.
Watch my feet.
'ho'
since it is short for whore, and you replace the missing letters with apostrophes. In fact, the first apostrophe should be inverted, but I only know how to do that on a Mac.
Plural?
'ho's.
Plural possesive?
'ho's'.
I shit you not. Chicago Manual of Style, suckas.
The only style you'll ever need.
The only style I'll ever have.
Strunk & White is a load of baloney anyways. Step up your grammar game and hear what real linguists have to say:
The most complete English grammar ever published
Student edition
Oh yeah, that's what I meant.
Fuck an AP style!
Yeah, I'm gonna take grammar advice from the guy who wrote that. Talk about misused punctuation, run-on sentences, bad sentence structure and poor grammar judgment in general! I don't claim to be the best, but my grammar game is more on point than this ho's and the highest grade level I completed in school is 9th. Then I left to pimp hoes. TALMBOUT?!?
Now, a garden tool is a hoe, so if you have more than one hoe, you have hoes, not hoe's.
Now, look at hos. It's one step closer to hoss, as in "hey there good lookin', this is Billy Bob Hoss about to stick a dick in a pregnant rollerskate, 10-4".
Now look at Sigur R??s:
Would you say Sigur R??'s? Or h??'s?
Ding Dong, Ding Dong, y??.
Ham on, ham on h?? wheat, alright?
45s not 45's
CDs not CD's
12"s? 12s? 12"'s?
Those hos own that hose so I know it is the ho's hose.
SONIC
Where are his 'ho's?
Maybe not Weird Al's best song, but certaily his best video. That shit is front-to-back hilarious.
or would it be "hos' hose"?
SONIC
All y'all ho's disrespecfalatin Yun Clubb's grammar need to fall back and reference the above.