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hilz
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:52 pm    Post subject: plural vs possesive s Reply with quote
Hi.

if i want to put an acronym in the plural form, do i use an apostrophe?
Or does that make it possessive?

For example, do I say URLs or URL's ?


thanks

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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:40 pm    Post subject: Re: plural vs possesive s Reply with quote
hilz wrote:
Quote:
Hi.

if i want to put an acronym in the plural form, do i use an apostrophe?
Or does that make it possessive?

For example, do I say

URLs -- plural

URL's -- singular possessive


URLs' -- plural possessive.

GFH
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Don Phillipson
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:41 pm    Post subject: Re: plural vs possesive s Reply with quote
"hilz" <now@y.com> wrote in message news:mdkaf.4702$AC.4034@dukeread10...

Quote:
if i want to put an acronym in the plural form, do i use an apostrophe?
Or does that make it possessive?

For example, do I say URLs or URL's ?

The general rule is: when in doubt, make it regular.

The regular rule is that we make plurals by adding S,
thus one ball, two balls. So we do the same for URLs.
(Apostrophes properly belong to the spheres of
pronunciation and punctuation, not to that of grammar.)
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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Raymond S. Wise
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:41 pm    Post subject: Re: plural vs possesive s Reply with quote
hilz wrote:
Quote:
Hi.

if i want to put an acronym in the plural form, do i use an apostrophe?
Or does that make it possessive?

For example, do I say URLs or URL's ?


thanks


"URL's" can stand for:

(1) The plural of "URL" ("URLs" is another plural form).

(2) The possessive form of "URL."

(3) The contraction of "URL is" or "URL has."

The argument sometimes made that "URL's" as a plural can be mistaken
for a possessive is silly. Both "URLs" and "URL's" are entirely
standard, at least in American usage.


--
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
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