one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
(OP)
I'd say "soft drink bottles". Google gives me twice as many hits on "soft drink bottles UK" as "soft drinks bottles UK", but is "soft drinks bottles" incorrect in the UK? (It's definitely incorrect in the US.)
That's it for this series of questions; I'm done with the paper.
Hg
That's it for this series of questions; I'm done with the paper.
Hg





RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
Jeff
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
Also, Soft drinks bottles could conceivably refer to someone called Soft hence the nonsense sentence: "Soft drinks bottles". The same can not be applied to Soft drink bottles unless a comma is added after Soft which would then lead to the nonsense instruction: "Soft, drink bottles"
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
But I doubt it.
Jeff
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
In this case you will see that theres 12300 hits for the first but only 655 for the latter.
Best regards
Morten
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
If you really wanted to "get down to some serious work in this forum" you wouldn't be reading & replying to this post!
Besides we are still looking for some Aluminum to make them with, but all we can find is Aluminium
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
What do we call the industry that makes soft drinks? Soft drink industry or soft drinks industry? In UK, the latter sounds better (to me, at least).
John
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
"soda" is always carbonated.
"pop" may be either, depending on regional usage.
RE: one more for UK grammar mavens: "soft drinks bottles"?
For soft drinks, "soft drinks bottles" is a number of collections of bottles, each collection representing a different soft drink, but "soft drink bottles" could be exactly the same thing, or it could be a collection of bottles used only for one type of soft drink. Depends on how ambiguous you want to be!
Bung
Life is non-linear...