Bug#105371: gcc-3.0: grammar & spelling fixes for README.Debian [patch]
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:21:17PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
>> >No, we aren't talking about nouns, we are talking about
>> >acronyms. The above does not pertain to this use.
>>
>> An acronym is still a noun. (And "80s" isn't an acroynm, anyway.)
>
>It's used as a noun, but the same rules do not apply, at least from
>what I remember from the english textbooks.
My wife has a Master's in English and works as a technical editor.
She assures me the rule does apply to acronyms. The possessive form
should have the apostrophe, the plural should not.
- Jim Van Zandt
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