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2004-05-26, 10:37

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Originally Posted by thuh Freak
i seem to remember (perhaps my memory is flawed, or maybe i made this all up on my own) that you are supposed to use an apostraphe when dealing with the plurality of an acronym, lest one should think the 's' is part of the acronym.
It's commonly done, but I'm pretty sure that's a misconception. For abbreviations, however, you would use it.

Of course, feel free to correct me. Putting an apostrophe after an acronym looks seriously wrong to me, though.
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