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Old 10-19-19, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mr_bill
There are actual style guides that still recommend apostrophe-s for plurals of acronyms when the letters are not pronounced as a word.

So there are fricken lasers and obsolete CRT’s.

Other style guides reserve the plural apostrophe-s for single lowercase spoken letters or single digit numbers.

So they got all 6’s and 7’s crossing their i’s and dotting their t’s

-mr. bill
But not 67's and it's as in many of "it"? I rebel against misuse of apostrophes but, as with inconsiderate drivers, I don't let it annoy me.

BTW, is this "normalization" of transposing hyphens and apostrophes? We're not getting political here are we?
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