Grammar Help

[bednobs]

at work i deal with "cases", Some of these cases are transferred in to us from other organisations. The case is then known as a "transfer in". If i have several of them, would i call them transfers in or transfer ins?

[bhg481]

transfers in

[EDDIE51]

Transfer Ins

[jno]

I'd call them transfers in, but organisations, or even individual offices, often have their own jargon for this sort of thing. (They might just call them TIs or whatever.)

[EDDIE51]

I would put it in brackets.
I have 6 'Transfer ins' at the moment

[Old_Geezer]

I don't think it really matters but I'd be more inclined to go with transfers in, just, because there are many transfers but they all only go in once.

[jim360]

I think you could argue that either is correct. The first, "transfers in", is in the spirit of treating "in" as an adjective, rather like the "major" in Sergeant Major, whose proper plural is sergeants major. On the other hand, "transfer in" reads like an entire noun, so that you'd add the plural s only at the very end of the noun, ie "transfer-ins".

[bednobs]

i could of course refer to them as the cases that have been transferred in i suppose

[Psybbo]

How about in-transfers

[Buenchico]

. . . or you could call it "Someone else's mess that they've dumped on us again"

[sherrardk]

I'd go for transfers in (a bit like 'goods in').

[bednobs]

but in all honesty chico, we also have a number of "transferred out" cases!

[Buenchico]

'Transfers in', like 'goods in' or 'courts martial', is correct.

[Buenchico]

>>>we also have a number of "transferred out" cases

Oh, it's you that generates all that paperwork is it?
;-)

[bednobs]

Yes. And out transferred out ones are much more of a mess than the transferred in ones

[BlackadderV]

I would dispute sergeants major as the correct plural because the word is properly hyphenated sergeant-major so the s goes at the end.

[TWR]

Is that your way of Identifying the "Transfer in" Bednobs?

If they were ""Transfer In's"" could / would that confuse with your own Documents?

Could the "Transfer In" be Numbered, would this be excepted