Gomi no Sensei wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Howard Brazee wrote: > >> Using capitalization to indicate a plural such as "CDs" is >> relatively new. Using the apostrophe is pretty old and well >> established. > > Um, what? Capitalisation does not indicate a plural, and I never said > it did. OK, pretend I said "case" instead of capitalization. It was pretty obvious what I meant. > Capitalisation indicates an acronym, as in CD for Compact > Disc or ATM for Automated Teller Machine. Yes, we established that already. > Using an apostrophe-s to > indicate a plural is neither old nor well established, Is too. (your turn) > and mere > commonality of usage is not some sort of lapis philosophorum that > renders the incorrect correct. But dictionaries do list such. > pe > "the kid's took both car's to shop for grocery's" indeed Your right!!! 8^)