The word 'pardons' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when someone is asking for forgiveness for something they said or did, or when someone is expressing surprise or disbelief. Example sentence: "Pardons, I didn't mean to cause any offense."
Soak or swim Stopping SOPA Not so fast You're on film Studying on a shoestring The pardoner's tale The Palmetto primary ReprintsWhat makes Mr Barbour's pardons especially unusual, argues P.S. Ruckman of Rock Valley College, is the number of them that went to violent criminals.
After winning three delays since 2007, Davis lost his most realistic chance at last-minute clemency this week when the Georgia pardons board denied his request despite serious doubts about his guilt.
Speaking during his joint press conference with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Thursday, Cameron promised a judge-led inquiry, after Northern Ireland's first minister and Democratic Unionist party leader, Peter Robinson, claimed he had been kept in the dark about pardons for up to 187 republicans and threatened to resign over the issue.
After talks with the Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, at Hillsborough Castle on Wednesday night, Robinson also claimed that some of the 187 IRA on-the-runs wanted by police for Troubles-related crimes had been given royal pardons, effectively granting them amnesties.
Davis supporters said they will push the pardons board to reconsider his case.
The Paris-based press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), said it was "relieved" to learn of the pardons issued by the sultan, Qaboos bin Said Al-Said.
The existence of the letters, effectively granting pardons to some IRA suspects still wanted for crimes during the Troubles – known as on-the-runs – has prompted a crisis in Northern Ireland, as unionist politicians appear to have been kept in the dark.
Q: Are you aware of any well-known figures receiving pardons?
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 3.36pm BST15:36 David Simpson, the DUP MP, says that his constituents were outraged by the revelations about the number of pardons given out in Northern Ireland.
Robinson has said he was "incandescent" that he was not told that IRA fugitives wanted in connection with Troubles-related crimes – known as on-the-runs – could have been issued with backroom pardons following the Good Friday agreement in 1998.
He is asking the state's board of pardons to reconsider its decision of last week not to grant clemency in this case; he has a habeas petition filed with Georgia's appeal court; and he is also asking the US supreme court to intervene to prevent its own 2002 ruling being flouted.
