begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:58:16AM -0700: > 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
Indeed. Your reference deserves to be lost. It's stupid. Of all the reasons to go with 's as indicating plurals, that's the most wrong-headed one I can think of. [snip] > > 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 ;) That's my inclination. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
