Timeline for Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 16:30 | comment | added | Jay | Good point. CD was an anachronistic example. I should have said SIMs. :-) | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 16:23 | comment | added | cosimo193 | CDs weren't available to the general public until ~1983, so I doubt you'd have written "CD's" in the 1970s. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 18:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 26, 2020 at 8:07 | comment | added | biziclop | I dunno what's the rule, but I'd burn plurals' apostrophes with fire. They're totally trashy and uneducated lookin'. | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 17:08 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 10, 2015 at 9:42 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | By the way, you still need an apostrophe in 70s. At the beginning. To signify that you left out the 19. That is, '70s | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 10:03 | comment | added | user84593 | It is simple: For all letters capitalized or not and for numbers, both the use and the lack of an apostrophe is correct. See the OED. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 20:25 | answer | added | Colin | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 19:54 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | Some overlap with What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym? and Is “ ’s ” ever correct for pluralization? | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 10:22 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 12, 2013 at 12:41 | answer | added | Simon Whitaker | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 31, 2012 at 17:41 | history | protected | RegDwigнt | ||
| May 29, 2012 at 10:15 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2012 at 19:15 | answer | added | MetaEd | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 16:41 | vote | accept | Jay | ||
| Jan 26, 2012 at 8:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/162452006403981312 | ||
| Jan 26, 2012 at 6:53 | answer | added | Hugo | timeline score: 105 | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 0:19 | answer | added | John Y | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 23:40 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 22:43 | answer | added | J.T. Grimes | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 22:27 | answer | added | phenry | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 22:03 | history | asked | Jay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |