Re: a dozen cpu's on a chip

On Thu, 08 May 2008 22:26:45 +0100, Eeyore
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Apostrophe Police wrote:

On Thu, 08 May 2008 17:40:04 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CESEXHWXUFJNKQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=207600531

I bet we'll see 256 one of these days.

But when will we see you cease using the greengrocers' apostrophe ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Greengrocers.27_apostrophes

Where exactly in John's post did you see one of those?

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How about the subject line ?

Graham


That's not one of them Greengrocers' apostrophe's-- rather that's a
standard (now largely deprecated) way of pluralizing abbreviations.
It's the method I was taught in school, and if you search the New York
Times archives you'll find frequent examples up until a few years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe

"An apostrophe is used by some writers to form a plural for
abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols where adding just s rather than
's may leave things ambiguous or inelegant. While British English
formerly endorsed the use of such apostrophes after numbers and dates,
this usage has now largely been superseded"

Personally, I think it's less ambiguous in some cases so I'd rather
see it used for all cases, but I guess the (spit) prescriptivists have
won this round.
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