Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
- Subject: Re: Grammar Police in OS X 10.11
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 07:28:52 -0500
On Jan 15, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Chris Page < email@hidden> wrote:
disk
Can the media be ejected (floppies, CD's, …?
Is the media a local volume …?
What do you think they should say?
Actually, the use of an apostrophe-s to form the plural of an acronym (as in "CD's") has been acceptable to most grammarians for a long time, although there seems to be a consensus that it is slowly fading away these days (except for single characters, as in "your a's and b's, and your 7's and 8's").
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