Quick question - is it Raspberry Pis or Raspberry Pi's?

[kelda]

Which is the correct plural?

[kelda]

No-one?

[PlentyOfPubeGardens]

Raspberries Pi

(haven't a clue really)

[Habbibu]

Pis, technically, as there's no missing letter, but it's not a typical noun ending for English, which is why it looks odd.

[prism]

Pis. Just as it is "CDs", "1920s", "CFDs" and "Ones". And isn't "chip's", "tomato's" or "toilet's".

[DSM]

What the hell is a raspberry pi?

[kelda]

Thank you.

I was confused because in dutch, the plural for many words is 's.

[FriskyMare]

Raspberry pies

[Orangeanddemons]

What is raspberry pis? Red wee? The equivalent of jus? Please enlighten me

[throckenholt]

raspberry pi is a very small very cheap computer (about £30) which you can plug into a screen and mouse and keyboard. The company aims to make computing so cheap everyone can have as many as they like.

[kelda]

at red wee.

I hadn't heard of a raspberry pi either until yesterday when my mum suggested she buy one for the children.

[WMittens]

prism

..."tomato's"...

Arguably that is one correct option - the apostrophe is in place of a missing letter.

I think FriskyMare's option is the best to adopt.

[prism]

Yes, they're all potentially correct as possessives, but tend not to be when on a sandwich board outside a shop.

How about n??

[hoping that will make it through the Mumsnet character encoding machine]

[WMittens]

No, I'm saying it's potentially correct as a plural.

[prism]

I'm not sure I agree with you about that. Apostrophes do indeed indicate abbreviation, but it would be perverse to use one in the case of a plural just to leave out one letter, when that could make the word look like a possessive. I don't know of any example of it being done except by mistake.