[thechat] Possessive or not?

[Martin Burns]

On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 06:43  pm, Madhu Menon wrote:

> At 10:51 PM 7/18/2002, John Handelaar wrote:
>> [1] The Two Madhus!  It's either a comedy act, or
>> they recorded 'Knights in White Satin' :-)
>
> That reminds me. I'm bugged whenever someone uses the possessive form
> where
> they actually mean plural. So they use "CD's" instead of "CDs", "PC's"
> instead of "PCs", "CPU's" instead of "CPUs".

Oh Yeah. I've had colleagues with apostrophes in plurals in their *Word
Dictionary* because it pissed them off that Word kept telling them they
were wrong.

I deleted every single one of them from every single dictionary.

*That's* how much pain it caused me

Cheers
Martin
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