Re: clarification needed

Subject: Re: clarification needed
From: Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:05:44 -0500

Susan Guttman wrote:
>
> According to the Microsoft Manual of Style:
> "To form the plural of an acronym, use a lowercase "s" without an
> apostrophe."
>
> In other words, you win. :D

Also the Jargon File or "Hacker's Dictionary":

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Hacker-Writing-Style.html

> hackers prefer to write `1970s' rather than `nineteen-seventies' or `1970's'
> (the latter looks like a possessive).

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