"smiths" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a plural form of the word "smith," which can be used as a noun to refer to a person who works with metal (e.g., a blacksmith, a silversmith, etc.). An example sentence using "smiths" is: "The village was known for its many smiths, who were famous for crafting intricate jewelry and kitchen utensils."
Manchester's past and present club scenes will be represented, including a set from Smiths drummer Mike Joyce, one of several generations of Manchester musicians who have performed at the Cornerhouse.
Certainly, when I arrived here to study in the 1980s – an NME-reading, leftie Smiths fan – I simply didn't believe the poisonous racism that I heard from fellow students.
Johnny Marr mingles old Smiths hits How Soon Is Now?, Bigmouth Strikes Again and Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before with tracks from his new album The Messenger that hint at where his old band could've gone if they'd got into krautrock, New Order and revolution – "break all the television!" he chants ungrammatically in Sun & Moon.
As for the woman who went to see her football team in the Eternal City and took a beating from the local police, she is Carly Lyes from Rusholme (though not a ruffian, if you know the old Smiths song) and, when United did eventually get in contact, it was not in the circumstances you might imagine.
It was the city that the Smiths sang about, the city that the Fall came from.
In a place like Manchester, he says, bands have to carry the weight of the city's musical heritage, the pressure of living up to The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order.
NME readers largely felt that it should always be the Fall or the Smiths.
Rogan has considerable form; he covered the breakdown between Morrisey and Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr in the celebrated The Severed Alliance and is well placed to referee the vicious feuding between Ray and his brother, Dave.
Other outfits that have developed technology for such schemes include Smiths Detection in Britain and, in America, Berkeley Nucleonics, General Electric, GENTAG, Passport Systems and Purdue University.The sheer danger of making a dirty bomb is a factor too.
Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group, an industrial mini-conglomerate, specialises in devices that can detect toxic gases in seconds, including hand-held ones that run on AA batteries.
Meanwhile, the detection equipment, medical systems and industrial seals and hoses arms of Smiths seem to be faring better away from aviation.
