RE: Question on acronym plural

Subject: RE: Question on acronym plural
From: "Zuercher, Darrell" <dzuerche -at- tva -dot- gov>
To: "Heather Anderson" <Heather -dot- Anderson -at- cubrc -dot- org>, "Filipp Sapienza" <urbann_animals -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- TECHWR-L -dot- COM" <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:14:33 -0400

Heather,

Section 6.16 of the Chicago Manual of Style would indicate that RFSs is
the correct form. Their example is SOSs, not SOS'.

--Darrell

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Subject: Question on acronym plural

Request for Service = RFS

When talking about multiple, do I leave it as RFS or use RFS' ?

Ie, certain RFS were used to create.... or Using a meaningful sample of
RFS',


I really should know this, but my brain is dying due to the paper I'm
working on.

~ Heather

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