Re: New Debian Project Leader Chosen

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:36:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> > And which grammatical rule suggests the apostrophes?
> It's the standard rule for pluralizing single lower-case letters.  
> 
> Chicago Manual of Style, 13th ed; 6.9--10:

Hmm, OK. A real reference. I'd always assumed it was just poor
practice (given that the general population has serious trouble
with the apostrophe).

I wonder if this applies to British/Australian English as well.



thanks,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>