so, what's the proper way to pluralize CD and/or DVD? CDs just looks wrong, and CD's indicates possession, and one really doesn't want to have to write out compact discs every time, and...
looking for the vinyl answer...
> CDs just looks wrong
Not to my eye, eta.
One cm, two cms is a common pattern of pluralisation here, and the uppper case makes no odds to me. The possessive, wrongly applied, on the other hand... [/grinding teeth]
hmm. ok. I can try CDs, and see if I'll get used to it.
thanks!
I'm with mav (although quite far removed). I also prefer adding lowercase s to uppercase acronyms*, indicating the s is not inherently part thereof.
*wwftds being a notable exception <g>
What mav and tsuwm said. [/putting-in-vote-after-the-election-is-already-over emoticon]
*wwftds being a notable exception <g>
Well, tsuwm, you could try wwftdS on for size, I suppose ...
Thre's no capital I in dea.
heh.. next you'll be telling us there's no I in ego.
Dag nab it, if we can use it for lower-case plurals, I don't see why it won't work for acronyms too:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html
Yabbut, the Apostrophe Protection Society opposes the use of apostrophes to denote the plurals of acronyms ... something for which I have been previously chastised on this board.
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
Oh, I love those guys!
But I still say that CDs, for ex., just looks wrong; maybe it's like when you learn a piece of music incorrectly: thereafter, the correct version sounds wrong to you. (Well, me, anyway.) I "learned" CD's, so...
>I "learned" CD's..
you learned CD's what?
Trust you to sum it up! Oh, Capfka, your funni-es
are the droll-est!
Hey, an unpicked nit!
One cm, two cms is a common pattern of pluralisation here -
In case this cm stands for centimetre, then the pluralization might be common, at least in areas recently converted to the metric system. It is nevertheless wrong: According to the SI norms, abbreviated units of measure are never pluralized.
Offhand, the only time I've seen apostrophes used for plurals is with letters and numbers as in "Mind your p's and q's," "Cross your t's and dot your i's," and "Cross out all 2's in the first row." CDs looks preferable to me as does cds, but because of the p's and q's, I can see how CD's came to be written. Again, it's just a matter of training your eye for whatever convention is generally accepted.
I think that you get apostrophes used in situations like p's and q's simply because ps and qs can mean other things, and we English speakers don't like to have to work out what a word means from the context. CDs or DVDs are self-explanatory since there are not two potential meanings.
This is just an opinion!
Oh, Capfka, your funni-es
are the droll-est! Qualis artifices faeces tauri sumus!
Summus would even go as far as Estes Park, Colorado to try and find a pun using sunt.
Don't forget Vincent's psychoanalyst nephew --------------------- E Gogh. (Thanks, wow.)