[plug] Re: Mandrake 10 and apostrophic phobia's

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, James Devenish wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:59:07 +0800
> From: James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au, arie99 at ozemail.com.au
> Subject: Re: Mandrake 10 was [plug] MDK users was: MP3 ripper or some
>     other software to copy cd's to my HDD
> 
> In message <40DC9B25.18837.D4652D at localhost>
> on Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:37:41PM +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
> > The latest edition of "Linux Format" magazine has cover disc/s with
> > Mandrake 10 on it - 3 [CDs] or [one] DVD - if you're quick and/or lucky.
> > 
> > To the punctuation experts and gurus :
> > Are my ' 's, .'s, /'s and  ,'s in the right places now ???
> 
> Thanks for asking -- or maybe you were making a snide remark? I'll bite
> the bait anyway. ;-) 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.)
> 
> 
> 

And, on what do you base the premise that CD's are not entitled to 
apostrophes?

Are MC's not subject to apostrophes?

Are MP's not subject to apostrophes?

Where an acronym is used, is it not general practice, to use an 
apostrophe, for the plural of the acronym?

Or, are you claiming that OS's, should be OSs? That sounds like the 
pommy equivalent of the big man in Bonanza...

:)

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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