Apostrophe's (was: Re: Mandrake 10 was [plug] MDK users was: MP3 ripper or some other software to copy cd's to my HDD)

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Jun 25 22:08:43 WST 2004


James Devenish wrote:

| I think the only notable correction is that there's no apostrophe
| within "CDs". (I know neither who started writing "CD's" nor why
| people copied it.)

I can vaguely see why people would do it -- one use of apostrophes is
for contraction, and CDs is an abbreviation.

Cameron.  (Who is not trying to argue for the correctness of either
CDs or CD's.)





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