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

[Arie Hol]

On 25 Jun 2004 at 22:08, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> 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.
> 
An apostrophe also implies 'ownership' 

In which case CD's would be incorrect, besides english is my second language - and I'm allowed to 
make mistakes. :-)

(There goes a contraction of 'I am' )

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