Help with grammar please!

[crisgal]

i am writing a programme for the school play. They want some special thanks to several people.
Can i put 'A special thank you to:' and then list different people? Or does the thank you have to be plural, because we're thanking more than one of them? Help!

[buttons77]

You could say that you would like to say a special thank you to each of the following, and then list all the people

[naomi24]

You can't pluralise 'thank you'. Think about it. Thank yous? Nah. :o)

Just one 'thank you' followed by your list of names is fine.

[naomi24]

Or you could just say 'With special thanks to .... list of names'.

[Buenchico]

As has been said, you can't make 'thank you' plural (since "you" can refer to either one person or a number of people anyway).

My own way of doing it would be to write: "Special thanks, for their help in our production, go to . . . "

[THECORBYLOON]

The word "thanks" can be singular so you can have a "thank" but I can't think on when it would be used. The word "thankyou" can have a plural so you could say, "Special thankyous to..." but you could just say, "A special thanks to..." the choice is yours.

[rojash]

There is a noun form which is normally expressed as thankyou or thank-you. The fact that you are using it as a noun (and you must be, as you have preceded it with the indefinite article: "a"), means:
a) You should have written "a special thankyou" or "a special thank-you", and
b) you can pluralise it: "I would like to say special thankyous to..."

Having said that, I agree with the others that there are better ways of phrasing it.

[rojash]

Here's a reference: http://tinyurl.com/32kd6g8

[DTCwordfan]

"Thanks to you all. You know who you are, but notwithstanding, I would like to single out Joe, Chris, the HM and x, y and z, for special thanks for being (complete wallahs/divine Gods, whatever - fill in as aprops)."