Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting DJA as of Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:16:55AM -0700: > [snip] > > After a bit of reseach, including dictionaries and books on hand, as > > well as Wikipedia on English, it turns out that both CD's and CDs are > > correct for the plural form of CD, with CDs preferred.
One reference I found (and promptly lost) indicated that the apostophe was a good device to show that the pluralised form is not part of the acronym itself. CDs: Compact Discs, or a Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer? I would take ths time to point out the obvious that few, if any, acrnyms that end with s have that s as lowercase. At least, I found none as I searched. Why won't they make a search engine that allows Regular Expression searches? VC idea: Allow RE searches, at a price! VC idea (refinement): allow the search, but indicate the number of hits. Require payment to get the hits. This would allow a user to see if their RE is even written right. Any grad students feel like tackling this idea? You can out-Google Google! > So what's the correct possessive form? CD's. Unless you are talking about a Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer, then t would be CDS' or CDS's ;) -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
