On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Howard Brazee wrote: > OK, pretend I said "case" instead of capitalization. It was pretty obvious > what I meant. Yes, you mean that capitalising the letters in CD v. cd somehow make it plural, which is literally incomprehensible to me. > > Using an apostrophe-s to > > indicate a plural is neither old nor well established, > Is too. (your turn) As the claimant, I should think providing some scintilla of evidence rather relies on you. > > and mere > > commonality of usage is not some sort of lapis philosophorum that > > renders the incorrect correct. > > But dictionaries do list such. Um, so? I hope you don't mean to say that because a usage is in a dictionary, it is therefore correct. pe