[plug] KDE en_GB: 'distro'

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Knight wrote:

> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I remembered what I was going to ask now, this probably won't come up, it's 
> not even a real word anyway, but here goes! When it comes to the plural of 
> 'distro', what do u guys think it should be? The most common ones I've seen 
> are distros, distroes, and distro's. The last obviously doesn't make sense, 
> what do you guys think we should settle on?
> 
> KDE bloke
> 
> 

The last one "distro's", is the most appropriate. Reason? "distro" is an
abbreviation.

It is not "CDS" or "CDs", it is correctly, "CD's", for the same
reason. Also, "TV's", etc.

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Bret Busby
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