• houndeyes@toast.oooEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Is it ever appropriate to use an apostrophe to pluralize a word?

    Surprisingly, I stumbled upon exceptions on Wikipedia not too long ago. E.g., pluralizing single letters (Oakland A’s) and symbols (#'s).

    • uberfreeza@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I was wondering about that. I assumed there wasn’t exceptions, because those can still be possessive. Oakland A’s members or 13’s unlucky superstition. I’m not surprised though, because English is a stupid mess of a language.