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Subject:Re: Style/standard question From:jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:58:05 -0700
Hi,
Chicago Manual of Style 14th edition in para 6.16 says:
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So far as it can be cone without confusion, single or multiple letters,
hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whterh spelled out or in
numberals) form the plural by adding s alone (see also 6.82 [which uses
apostrophes in proverbial expressions, such as "mind your p's and q's"]):
xs and ys all SOSs
the thre Rs several YMCAs and AYHs
thank-you-ma'ams CODs and IOUs
in twos and threes the early 1920s
Not unexpectedly, there are some exceptions to this rule....
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Hope this helps.
joe
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