Re: Popular Photography entry-level DSLR rankings

Marc Sabatella wrote:
JPEG's

Not to sound pedantic, but all of your pluralized acronyms in this
post
use apostrophes, but those apostrophes don't belong there.
Apostrophes
are for possession and contraction; not for plurality.

Actually, different style guides give different rules on this matter.
The style guide we used in school called for apostrophes to be used
for plurals of numbers, inidividual letters, abbreviations, and
symbols - basically, anything that wasn't a word. I believe this is
the Oxford standard, whereas the MLA, Chicago, and other style guides
suggest more limited usage of apostrophes (such as advocating it to
pluralize single letters only, as in "mind your p's and q's"). To
me, JPEGs looks as wrong and confusing to (I wonder what the "s"
stands for, since it is apparently partof the acronym?) as JPEG's
does to you.

http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/



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