> -----Original Message----- > From: Gomi no Sensei [mailto:gomi at speakeasy.net] > > 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. > Capitalisation indicates an acronym, as in CD for Compact Disc or ATM for > Automated Teller Machine. Using an apostrophe-s to indicate a plural is > neither old nor well established, and mere commonality of usage > is not some > sort of lapis philosophorum that renders the incorrect correct. > > pe > "the kid's took both car's to shop for grocery's" indeed > > FWIW & IIRC, ATM = Asynchronous Transfer Mode, IMHO. LOL Sorry. :) It's intruiging, and not a little bit sad, that I have caught myself speaking/typing a conversation almost exclusively in acronyms. Various industries have their own language, but the computer field seems to be especially full of it. W Southerner: "Mornin'. What're y'all up to?" Northerner: "In the civilized north, we do not end sentences in a preposition." Southerner: *thinks* "So, what're y'all up to, asshole?"