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[dancefloorlandmine]

Should the plural of an acronym have an apostrophe?

[Poll #1217630]

I know what the Times and Oxford style guides say, but I was wondering about the opinions of my readership on the wonderful wibbly wobbly world wide web.

Comments

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the apostrophe would be indicating missing letters (as in "don't") rather than possession. Similar to putting full stops after Mr or Dr to show they're abbreviations - old-fashioned and I don't do it any more (against civil service style).

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

My mistake - I forgot about the use of an apostrophe to mark an elision. I suppose an alternative view would be that GCSE is actually a string of abbreviations, so could be G.C.S.E. - I suppose that the increasing use of acronyms has resulted in the steady dropping of the intervening stops.