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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

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

It appears in England, abbreviations that are pronounced as words are not written with all capital letters, whereas abbreviations where each letter is pronounced on its own are: Aids vs GCSEs. In America all abbreviations are capitalised: it's AIDS.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

It used to be AIDS here, when it was first in the media, and the initial campaigns were running - it appears to have shifted from acronym to proper noun in the intervening years.