points by dubya 10 hours ago | 0 comments
The apostrophe is used to form the plural of lowercase letters, sometimes single numbers, and mixed-case acronyms.
The loss of the distinction between lose and loose is killing me though.
[–] kulahan 8 hours ago
[–] dubya 3 hours ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at about 0, but it's a good segue. I'm a math guy, and it is not extremely rare for me to want to express something like "how many i's". The alternative punctuation, "how many is," is confusing.
A bit off topic, but how would you react to her's or their's? Not real words, but the intention is clear, and possessive.
You’re right that there are extremely rare exceptions (though even official sources like Purdue OWL and Chicago manual of style disagree on the finer points), but I will keep telling everyone you never, ever use it for plurality. I would be much happier seeing people type “there should’ve been WotLKs for users to choose between” than “I had three burger’s” on the very rare chance I see the former. I hope you’ll join me!