[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report (Seriously OT now!)

John Winters john at linuxemporium.co.uk
Tue Nov 26 08:34:32 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:53, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:00:52PM +1300, Jonathan wrote:
> > 3. NO PLURALS! Five bananas, not five banana's
> 
> If you're determined to be pedantic, then an apostrophe is allowed in
> the plural of acronyms and abbreviations.

Is it?  Do you have an authority for that?  There seems no point since
the traditional method (e.g. "CDs", "TVs") is perfectly clear.

John

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