On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gomi no Sensei wrote: > 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." Oops - "disk" did look funny. I like your solution except that it forces me to write "I recently bought The New Pornographer's latest CD" instead of "cd". Perhaps "cd" is my original and fatal error. > > The apostrophe already has two or three important jobs -- no need to further > overload the operator. Hear, hear.