Grammar PSA: It could be verse. BUT IT'S NOT.

[athelind]

This is one that's been popping up with increasing and irritating regularity, so I'd just like to state for the record:

"Versus"
is not a plural,
and its singular is not
"Verse."This is more of a verbal error than a written one, thus far, largely because in writing, everyone tends to use "vs." -- but it's one I keep hearing more and more often,

Comments

[kfops]

Obviously you've just uncovered a niche concept for combat poetry!

Limerick versus Haiku!

Verses versus verses!

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!

[foofers]

"Pirates vs. Ninja" gets pronounced as "Pirates verse Ninja".

Seriously? If I heard somebody do that I'd probably punch them in the face.

And this is coming from someone who flunked high school English.

[athelind]

I would either hurt my hand or my car radio.

[normanrafferty]

One suspects auto-complete is at work.

[athelind]

... if I kept seeing it in writing, maybe, but verbally?

[araquan]

Were they usually talking fast enough that they just carelessly dropped the syllable?

[athelind]

Generally speaking, they enunciate it fairly clearly.

[tailypo]

Whoa, this is one mistake I've never heard. Thank god.