Comments for Baxter Communications

Comment on Is it photo’s or photos? by Gordon Johnson

Gordon Johnson — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 15:27:52 +0000

Strawb’s, pot’s and tom’s are all examples of BAD English usage. That slovenly use of the language should not be used as an excuse to add an apostrophe to an obviously plural word.
If I wrote … the pot’s lid, it would mean the lid of a pot; nothing to do with potatoes.
The apostrophe is used to indicate the possessive. e.g “the photo’s colour saturation”, which is not a plural

Comment on Do you really mean perspectives – or prospects? by Levente

Levente — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:39:58 +0000

I would add prospective here as well. Although it’s an adjective, it often interferes with the words perspective and prospect in my mental vocabulary, resulting in the chimera: future *prospectives…

Comment on Please, no comma after please by Khalid H

Khalid H — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 19:50:23 +0000

I actually cannot find an authoritative guideline on this. I vaguely recall that ‘please’ is a shorthand for ‘if it pleases you’. If that recollection is indeed correct, the comma after please makes perfect sense. I am also confused by the recommendation of using a comma before please when please ends the sentence.

Comment on Is it Kind regards or Kind Regards? by kMac

kMac — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 22:56:48 +0000

Omg…. I’ve seen so many variations and never knew the appropriate closure until my son in college corrected my email. So in looking it up I see that he is correct….. wow… I was taught incorrectly many years ago..
Thanks for simple explanatuon!

Comment on Is it Kind regards or Kind Regards? by Sharon Gasparova

Sharon Gasparova — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:06:47 +0000

So many businesses get this wrong …………..thank you for making it plain and simple!

Comment on Expertise or expertises? by Andy Baxter

Andy Baxter — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:16:50 +0000

Dear Jose,

Many thanks for your question. Yes, your sentence sounds absolutely fine. Thanks for pointing this out as an option. Here are a few similar sentences from the US:

Children here benefit from a multidisciplinary approach that combines the expertise of many specialists in different areas of cancer care.
..and would require the expertise of many different professionals experienced in different areas of personal finance.
Harnessing the expertise of specialists in different areas of breast cancer treatment helps patients better understand their treatment options.

Kind regards,
Andy

Comment on Expertise or expertises? by Jose Menendez

Jose Menendez — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:08:41 +0000

But what if you are referring to different people in the same sentence? Would you write “this project synergistically combines the expertise of three engineers in different areas of computing”?

Comment on Is it photo’s or photos? by Graham Lester George

Graham Lester George — Wed, 25 May 2016 23:51:24 +0000

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The apostrophe in “photo’s” has nothing to do with pluralising. The apostrophe is there to replace the missing letters of “photographs”. Just as my mother would write on her shopping list: Punnet of strawb’s; 2lb pot’s; 1lb of tom’s; collect photo’s from chemist’s shop. Strawberries – Strawb’s; Potatoes – Pot’s; Tomatoes – Tom’s; Photo’s – Photographs.

Comment on Powerful or powerfull? by man

man — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:13:50 +0000

Also don’t put , in front of etc. Et cetera is a Latin expression that means “and other things”, or “and so forth”. So, it has and in it already.

Comment on Expertise or expertises? by dick

dick — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:27:17 +0000

Thanks for this. Written english is not one of my areas of expertise. I just almost sent a CV that listed my expertises. Luckily I was smart enough to google it in time.