On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Doug Kaufman wrote:
>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:52:50 -0800 (PST)
>From: Doug Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: lynx-dev [PATCH] grammar correction to LYMessages_en
>
>On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Ismael Cordeiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Larry W. Virden wrote:
>>
>> > Unfortunately, the URL's instead of URLs is a bug in many, MANY files in
>> > the lynx distribution.
>
>Although it would be nice to be consistent throughout the code, I
>am not sure why some are saying that "URL's" is incorrect grammar.
>Leaving out the apostrophe seems to be a recent innovation. There
>clearly would be no need for the apostrophe if it were "U.R.L.s",
>but without the periods in the acronym, I believe that "URL's" falls
>within the acceptable "non-possessive 's" rules as described in
>Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Does anyone have a
>citation to say that this is incorrect grammar?
By that argument, it should be U'R'L's.
At least it sounds like you're using it in the "left out letters" sense.
I say change them all to URLs.
