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I thought this article was going to be about how to properly punctuate and pluralize abbreviations.
by albedoa 16y ago
I thought this article was going to be about how to properly punctuate and pluralize abbreviations.
- rwmj 16y agoL. O. L.
- greatreorx 16y agoI thought this too at first, but now I think A.T.M.'s is okay in some editorial circles as a plural non-possessive. It's used in many other NYT articles - as is non-possessive G.I.'s. "...some writers still pluralize initialisms in this way. Some style guides continue to require such apostrophes - perhaps partly to make it clear that the lower case s is only for pluralization and would not appear in the singular form of the word, for some acronyms and abbreviations do include lowercase letters." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism#Representing_plurals_and_possessives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism#Represen...