I received an e-newsletter today in which the plural of pizza is spelled pizza’s. For reals.
Yeah, yeah—these things happen. But they really shouldn’t. One of the simplest rules in all of English is that, for the most part, anyway*, all it takes to form a plural is the addition of an s. One cat, two cats; one book, two books; one viola, two violas.
It’s that last example that throws people, though. For some reason, if the word ends in a vowel—like, say, pizza—out of nowhere comes the apostrophe.
Don’t. Just…don’t. All you need is s.
*The animal kingdom provides some of the more notable exceptions: mice, geese, sheep, hippopotami, et al.
