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Well--at least it's up front with The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit . I was SO outraged when I finally found out that that da**ed Wikipedia wasn't a real encyclopedia!
I noticed that this site says it's okay to use an apostrophe when you're making a single letter plural. I believe there might be a couple of people here who would argue with that.
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I noticed that this site says it's okay to use an apostrophe when you're making a single letter plural.
How many is are in that sentence?
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>How many is are in that sentence?
or, "how many Is are in that sentence" is a bit more readable.
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The Is have it! 
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Is wondering... Is you is or is you ain't my baby The ways you's acting lately makes me doubt. 
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>Is wondering...
now THAT should have an apostrophe!
-joe (I's quite certain) friday
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or, "how many Is are in that sentence" is a bit more readable.
Is are fewer in number than As in that sentence.
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"making a single letter plural" uh?
How am I to understand that? How can one letter become plural???
A simple exemple? Possible?
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"making a single letter plural" uh?
How am I to understand that? How can one letter become plural???
A simple exemple? Possible? Understandably you can't understand what the Faldage wrote, BranShea - hey - he wrote it poorly. What he wanted to say (but said it poorly) was that any multiplicity of a same symbol that denotes any of the letters of alphabet should be denoted by the addition of a small letter "s" rather than by an apostrophied "s" in order to clearly indicate that the writer is referring to more than one of the specific letter that he had mentioned. Sometimes Faldage hurrries his explanations. 
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Ummm... Milo. Perhaps you ain't noticed lately, but I ain't Jackie.
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Oops. My most humble apologies, dear Jackie, for thinking that you were Faldage. 
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What he wanted to say was that any multiplicity of a same symbol that denotes any of the letters of alphabet should be denoted by the addition of a small letter "s" rather than by an apostrophied "s" in order to clearly indicate that the writer is referring to more than one of the specific letter that he had mentioned.
Oh, it's all clear. allright. Five s's in a word or five i's in a word of five o's. (f.i.) should according to the article be written as "s"s , "i"s or "o"s. That makes the text image less clear. Why the double when one is enough? btw. Why didn't you say so in the first place (would have saved me a multiplicity of complexicities) And furthermore, this complicated answer did not get you enough credit to give acces to an honorable place on the heavy hand-hewn wooden chairs.(+ the mixing up of two persons even sets the total score back to the negative))
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I'm with BranShea; I find i's clearer than either Is or is for a plurality of the letter i. Even though it takes a whole extra keystroke.
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