RE: Grammar : "of", " 's" or nothing ?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Mike Schmidt wrote: 
 
> The debate that won't die around here (where I work) is the 
> plural of an abbreviation. I believe that if you want to talk 
> about more than one CD, for example, you CAN use an 
> apostrophe (five CD's), but I don't. I capitalize the 
> abbreviation, and use a lower case 's' to make it plural (five CDs).

Where I come from, only grocer's are permitted to use apostrophe's for
plural's. ;-) 

There's no reason to treat acronyms or abbreviations any differently
than other nouns. 

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
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303-223-5111
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