Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — “Thanks,” or “Thank You.” [ARTICLE]

“Thanks,” or “Thank You.”

Stormonth, who will be accepted as good authority, gives “thanks,” in his dictionary, as the familiar form_ of “thank you,” without a hint that it is undesirable, and we have daily examples of its use by careful grammarians. The question here seems not so much one of grammar as one of taste and preference. Strickly speaking, “thanks’* is correct, but by a fastidious speaker it will scarcely be preferred to the deliberate and old-fashioned form.— Charleston Fetal _