Where would you keep blackberries, if you had to tote up to 10 of them? In a Ziploc? If you’re carrying the smartphone, it’s a BlackBerry. If you have 10 of them, they’re BlackBerrys. Only the writers and editors on the Yahoo! front page feel they have the authority to change the spelling of a trademark:
To form the plural of a family name or trademark ending in Y, just add S. You don’t “change the Y to I and add ES” as you learned in second grade. So, the Kennedys, the O’Learys, and the Halle Berrys of this world all keep the Y in their name. Same goes for the BlackBerrys.
January 30, 2013 at 8:49 am
OMG! Every time you post one of these Yahoo boo-boos, I think “They can’t get any worse,” and then they do!
January 30, 2013 at 9:11 am
It’s quite astounding, isn’t it? Do you think they are at all interested in writing as a craft or profession — or even a means of communication? Nope.