begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:38:20AM -0700: > On 9/7/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > >So what's the correct possessive form? > > Is there a need for a possessive form? > > Do CDs possess anything that needs to be referred to in that way?
Labels. Cases. Shape. Color. Shiny-ness. The work around is to avoid using the possessive, I know. Instead of saying "This CD's label is rather colorful." you could say "The label on this CD is rather colorful." ...but that's (a) longer and (b) slightly more awkward. We use possessives to refer to intrinsics of inanimate objects all the time. "The Mustang's 5 liter engine provides a lot of torque." "This pen's ink is a sort of purple-pink." "The Mac Mini's motherboard has just one RAM slot." -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
