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Hi. I'm a native speaker of Italian. I've noticed in a lot of English videos that sometimes and S is added at the ending of singular words or in other places were it shouldn't be. A very common occurence is "but" --> "buts". For example take this video I was watching right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqagDS7KmM&ab_channel=CameronChardukian At 2.57 "with the American GovernmentS, butS", 3.14 "in a professional environmentS", 4.00 "buts". Considering that English is not my native language I may be completely wrong and not understanding this right, but it is a thing that I'm noticing quite often. Can someone help me? Thank you! -- 212.171.18.157 ( talk) 10:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you all! Very interesting. -- 62.211.162.165 ( talk) 16:46, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
I remember reading somewhere that Wikipedia does not allow English contractions for mainspace article writing, as this is informal writing and it's not encyclopedic. But I don't seem to find the guideline for this - Gouleg🛋️ harass/ hound 14:29, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi. I'm a native speaker of Italian. I've noticed in a lot of English videos that sometimes and S is added at the ending of singular words or in other places were it shouldn't be. A very common occurence is "but" --> "buts". For example take this video I was watching right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqagDS7KmM&ab_channel=CameronChardukian At 2.57 "with the American GovernmentS, butS", 3.14 "in a professional environmentS", 4.00 "buts". Considering that English is not my native language I may be completely wrong and not understanding this right, but it is a thing that I'm noticing quite often. Can someone help me? Thank you! -- 212.171.18.157 ( talk) 10:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you all! Very interesting. -- 62.211.162.165 ( talk) 16:46, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
I remember reading somewhere that Wikipedia does not allow English contractions for mainspace article writing, as this is informal writing and it's not encyclopedic. But I don't seem to find the guideline for this - Gouleg🛋️ harass/ hound 14:29, 15 December 2021 (UTC)