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." > > The apostrophe already has two or three important jobs -- no need to > further overload the operator. > > pe Using capitalization to indicate a plural such as "CDs" is relatively new. Using the apostrophe is pretty old and well established.