Plural of software wiki

Mehper C. Palavuzlar Mehper C. Palavuzlar It's the standard abbreviation of mathematics everywhere except the USA. There's nothing specifically Indian about it.

I'm used to hearing "math" vs "maths", that's why "maths" sounds wrong to me [no offense to Indian people :D] — roman m. I believe this issue arises because people started using software as a short form for software program.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Epitorial 2 2 gold badges 5 5 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Agreed, it is uncountable and "softwares" sounds very wrong.

Common error I have to correct in non-native writing particularly from speakers of languages where "software" or a contraction "soft" is used as a countable loan word, including French, Dutch and German. As a native speaker and in the field of programming software, I honestly cannot remember ever having used 'software' with an 's.

Show 6 more comments. The above is problematic for the same reason that the following sentence is problematic: My bottle is full of many water. Community Bot 1. Dan Tao Dan Tao 1, 4 4 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Prefer "much" to "a lot of" in this context. I agree with this answer, that "software" is uncountable.

But oddly, Wolfram has an ad campaign for Mathematica going right now with the slogan "One software to rule them all. Maybe the countable usage of "software" is creeping into accepted English. Consider people. It is countable in some cases and uncountable in others. We can say the "People of Europe" to mean all individual "persons" in Europe. We can also say the "Peoples of Europe" to mean the various population groups of Europe. I avoid that by saying "software products".

Other options: software solutions , applications , programs. Or "They sell many types of software". I would use programs instead: There are various video conversion programs in the market.

Eli Bendersky Eli Bendersky 1, 2 2 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Get your memes straight. It's "Gimme-teh-codez! Software and program can mean the same things but often do not. A program is typically a single entity, whereas, software is typically many programs working together in a system.

Mass nouns function as both singular and plural nouns. They can describe either one item, multiple items of the same type, or an entire category of items. Some examples include bread , rice , hair , garbage , and ice. The same word bread can be used to refer to a single loaf of bread or all the loaves of bread in a grocery store. The word software can be used in the same way. Software could refer to a single software product or multiple software products.

Software is the program or set of directions that computers use to complete a function. Some well-known software programs include Acrobat, Photoshop, and Excel.

The companies that develop these programs are called software companies. Software enables people to use computers to edit documents and images, organize data, file taxes, and perform many other tasks. Some software may come preinstalled on a computer and enables the machine to function. Others can be downloaded from the internet or bought at a store and installed onto the computer. The word hardware is also a mass noun. Hardware is the physical computer or accessories that use the software programs.

The computer, monitor, keyboard, and printer are all hardware. The plural form of software is software. You can combine other words with software to indicate more than one.