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09/17/07 22:40
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 		 #144720 - re: Thusly
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Andy Neil said:
As we write things like "typo", "LED", "micro", etc as if they were words with no indication of contraction (apart from the capitals in LED), why would we suddenly want to identify the contractions when they become plural?

Thus I would write:
typos - not typo's;
LEDs - not LED's
micros - not micro's


None of those words are contractions!

Typo is an informal (slang) shorthand for "typographical error."

LED is an initialism if you pronounce it "El Eee Dee" or an acronym if you pronounce it "led" as in Zeppelin.

Micro is a noun, derived from the quantifier prefix where the noun being modified got dropped. Its (not it's!) meaning is entirely dependent upon the context. It could mean "microcontroller" or "microprocessor" when used on this forum, but it could just as easily mean "microbrewery." See here for a concise definition.

In any case, the plural never uses an apostrophe. EVER.

-a

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