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

Dylan dylan at dylan.me.uk
Tue Nov 26 00:03:55 UTC 2002


On Monday 25 November 2002 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.

And numbers written as digits. Then again, none of those function in quite the 
same way as 'ordinary' words.

Dylan

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