There Is No Such Word As Emails

[Stargazer]

Just as there is no such word as sheets.

[Stargazer]

sorry should read sheeps! Email stands for electronic mail and the plural is mail.

[barry1010]

He emails me every day. Just saying.

[bhg481]

I would argue that e-mail stands for electronic mail and email is a new word, just as television was all those years ago.

[Blubster]

Well, I've had the sheets a few times, especially after eating a Vindaloo.

[barry1010]

Email does indeed stand for electronic mail

[Aldhelm]

I sent three emails today.
If that's wrong, how should I word it?

[Tilly2]

Obviously, you sent three email.

Doesn't feel right does it?

[ladybirder]

Jeremy Clarkson keeps sheeps at Diddly Squat farm.

[drmorgans]

I was going to telephone a mate then realised I might as well just phone them. Language evolves.

[Buenchico]

From The Writer's Digest:
"Email is the plural form of email, much like mail is the plural form of mail, when discussing email in a general sense. As in, I've got a lot of email. Very general, very correct, but...

Emails is the plural form of email when you get into specific numbers. As in, I've received 10 emails from him this morning. This is unlike the plural form of mail, since you wouldn't say you received 10 mails since last week, though you might say you've received 10 letters (though probably more likely bills or advertisements)".
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/what-is-the-plural-form-of-email-grammar-rules

I agree with that as, indeed, does the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09FOB-onlanguage-t.html

. . . and countless other sources too!

Further, even if 'emails' didn't exist as a plural, it would still exist as the present tense of the verb 'to email'. (e.g. "He emails yet another complaint to his boss nearly every day").

[ichkeria]

It's like anything else (apart from sheep :-) )
If it's an abstract noun it doesn't take an s
If it's an actual email
It does

[JimF]

"If it's an abstract noun it doesn't take an s"

Not true at all. Love, time, beauty, and science are all abstract nouns because you can’t touch them or see them.

[gingejbee]

...and to think that I've been called pedantic on here.

[tiggerblue10]

I use the word 'emails' all the time.........in work emails when referencing email chains.

And I like the word sheepses!

[Peter Pedant]

so if it isnt a thing it dont have an 's'
I have 10 emails and I get mail every morning

like - hope - - these are my last hopes - oo-er Mrs !
mercy !
we should not be thankful for small mercies as there arent any - or only one

yeah getting it I think

or Prime minister - we have not had a prime minister for some weeks.... (joke joke for chrissakes)