[thechat] Possessive or not?

[dave mclean]

On 2002.07.18 11:43, Madhu Menon wrote:

> 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".

Or 1980's instead of 1980s.

Grrr....

-d

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