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This tag is for questions concerning the written representation of the English language, especially spelling and word breaks (including hyphenation).
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"Real time", "real-time" or "realtime"
The difference between "real time" and "real-time" is mostly a matter of style and placement. In most cases, there's no need to add the hyphen; "real time" will work very well. However, a case can be …
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What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym / initialism?
The Chicago Manual of Style has an interesting way to address this: they omit the apostrophe, unless there are periods in the abbreviation. So this would give you ATMs, or alternately A.T.M.'s. (A.T.M …
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