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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

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Yes, but "xamination" is being elided; apostrophes can be used to mark alisions. however, in the case of GCSE, if you were to use apostrophes to mark the elisions, it would be G'C'S'E', which would be silly.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

D'oh, I o'erlook'd the elision aspect. Although yes, G'C'S'E' would be daft!