What's the plural of cable release?

**bobjames** · 13-Feb-2007, 08:50

Is it cable releases or cables release?

**C. D. Keth** · 13-Feb-2007, 08:56

Cable releases. Cable is describing what kind of release. You pluralize the noun.

**Bruce Watson** · 13-Feb-2007, 09:03

Originally Posted by Christopher D. Keth

Cable releases. Cable is describing what kind of release. You pluralize the noun.

Technically true. But the answer here is "confusion" because you can't easily tell which release is going to trip the shutter

**Walter Calahan** · 13-Feb-2007, 09:22

Cablus Releasi

Always go to the Latin root. Ha ha ha ha ha

Now where did I put all those cable releases? Grin.

**David R Munson** · 13-Feb-2007, 09:23

The proper plural of "cable release" is "pain in the ass."

**GPS** · 13-Feb-2007, 09:32

Release cables.

**Alan Davenport** · 13-Feb-2007, 12:47

Cabeli releasi

**erie patsellis** · 13-Feb-2007, 12:51

david,
wouldn't that be pains in the ass?

erie

**walter23** · 13-Feb-2007, 12:54

It's obviously cables release, but make sure you use an apostrophe (to denote that it is plural):

cable's release.

**Ralph Barker** · 13-Feb-2007, 13:01

Wouldn't a cable's release potentially gum up the shutter mechanism?

I vote for GPS's solution which avoids the problem altogether.

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