On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:05:06AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> 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
>
Have you printed that there label of the CD in question?
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