On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > How do you feel about the pluralization of the abbreviation of "compact > disk"? I feel that 'disk' is, properly speaking, an abomination. 'Compact Discs' is a perfectly serviceable plural, however, as is CDs. In my field (technical writing) we pluralise acronyms quite often, videlicet 'APIs', 'CRTs,' et al. The only place I want to see "CD's" is in a sentence like "This CD's surface is scratched up and I want to return it, please." The apostrophe already has two or three important jobs -- no need to further overload the operator. pe