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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

Re: To hell with the damn' things

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

So tell me please, how am I to know whether I have been invoiced for three Contracts for Difference or three Credit Default Swaps unless I can be certain that the plural will be three CD's or CDS's?
Why would there be a problem? You know from the number that it's a plural, so if it said 3 CDs, that's three time one CD; if it says 3 CDSs, that's three time one CDS. The apostrophe doesn't actually give you any extra information there.