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Working under the given: that that no apostrophe is used with plural
acronyms, for example, ABCs and GIs, not ABC's or GI's, what happens when
the "word" in question has just one letter--for example: Michael got all A's
in grammar class vs. Michael got all "As" or "A"s in grammar class. Without
the apostrophe, of course, the word looks like "as", but I do mean more than
one A.
I am running into this when documenting one of our web-based applications.
Am I consistent and stick to this rule no matter now many letters are in the
acronym, or am I apparently inconsistent for clarity's sake and use the
"hacked" form when the acronym is a single letter. And to take it a step
further, for an A, A's is definitely more clear than As, but for something
like an X, is X's more clear than Xs or. . . .
Thanks.
Tammy Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
NetRegulus, Inc.
303-925-7721 (Direct)
303-925-7700 (Main)
303-662-9320 (Fax)
tammy -dot- vanboening -at- netregulus -dot- com
www.netregulus.com
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