Rip of aerial fitters

On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:15:36 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:


I have seen three such examples in the last two days:

No HGV's
Local delivery's only
Wide load's

Sign in the window of my local library:
New DVD's
One of these days I'll go in and tell them.

"Peter Johnson" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:15:36 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:


I have seen three such examples in the last two days:

No HGV's
Local delivery's only
Wide load's

Sign in the window of my local library:
New DVD's
One of these days I'll go in and tell them.

"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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostro...ertain_plurals

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Max Demian

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:10:49 +0100
"Max Demian" wrote:

"Peter Johnson" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:15:36 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:


I have seen three such examples in the last two days:

No HGV's
Local delivery's only
Wide load's

Sign in the window of my local library:
New DVD's
One of these days I'll go in and tell them.

"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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostro...ertain_plurals


It doesn't mean they're right, though.

I find the examples given in that article most confusing, more than just
the correct use.

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Davey.

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:10:49 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

I have seen three such examples in the last two days:

No HGV's
Local delivery's only
Wide load's

Sign in the window of my local library:
New DVD's
One of these days I'll go in and tell them.

"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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostro...ertain_plurals

Which doesn't apply in any of the above cases...

No HGVs
Local deliveries only
Wide loads
New DVDs

....all perfectly understandable.
If it's OK to put apostrpohes in as you describe, then it ought to be:
No H'G'V's
New D'V'D's
which is clearly ridiculous.

On Thursday, August 28, 2014 2:34:32 PM UTC+1, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

No HGVs
Local deliveries only
Wide loads
New DVDs

...all perfectly understandable.

If it's OK to put apostrpohes in as you describe, then it ought to be:

No H'G'V's
New D'V'D's

which is clearly ridiculous.

What about MPs? Shouldn't they be MsP?

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:23:30 -0700 (PDT)
Norman Wells wrote:

On Thursday, August 28, 2014 2:34:32 PM UTC+1, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

No HGVs
Local deliveries only
Wide loads
New DVDs

...all perfectly understandable.

If it's OK to put apostrpohes in as you describe, then it ought to
be:

No H'G'V's
New D'V'D's

which is clearly ridiculous.

What about MPs? Shouldn't they be MsP?


Good point. But Scotland has high-jacked that term, as in MSP, plural
MsPs.

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Davey.