Re: Re: iPod vs. Walkman (Keith, Alex, Dean . . . and everyone)

From: Bark Of Delight <barkofdelight_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:20:48 -0700 (PDT)

The simple way to solve the "DVDs" dilemma is to avoid it.

Use the phrase "DVD disks" for the plural.

Bark!



On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:35 PM, "tschibasch" <tschibasch_at_yahoo.com> wrote:



Speaking of pluralities...

I often see apostrophes when pluralizing acronyms. Has this possibly become the accepted way of doing it?

Take the case of DVD. How do we make this plural?

We might first make it like this: DVDs

But it looks odd with a lowercase letter at the end. So, we fix this and render it as: DVDS

But now it looks like it might be a different acronym. Maybe some new special digital format exists? We do have DVD, DVDR, DVDRW; why not DVDS?

So, instead, we insert a small apostrophe separation: DVD's
Received on 2009-07-01 23:21:38