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What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym?
What is the proper way to indicate possession when using an abbreviation such as Dr.?
An example:
Most DD's have good packaging skills.
How did things come to that instead of:
Most DDs have good packaging skills.
Compare that to:
Most Debian Developers have good packaging skills.
[update] This question was asked with the presumption that the first example is correct, so I was surprised to find that it isn't the case.
The (IMO, mistaken) apostrophe-based usage arises out of a feeling of awkwardness in simply appending an s or es to an acronym or initialism.
The first quote is still considered incorrect, although (depressingly) widely used. "DDs" is likely to be strongly favoured (or favored for our US members) here...
