Hi,
Point well taken. All I can do is throw myself on the mercy of the APOSTROPHE PROTECTION SOCIETY and have my counsel enter a plea in mitigation:
My Lords,
My client deeply regrets 'shooting from the hip' in this matter.
As regards the rude insertion of an apostrophe, he acknowledges the offence but claims that he was provoked by the deplorable modern habit of omitting to include a period after each letter in an abbreviation.
He states that he can accept cases where the abbreviation ends with a consonant (RFPs, VIPs, HQs, ICBMS) but that cases which end in a vowel (POs, BAs, CEOs, OBEs, DAs, NCOs) seem to him to resemble a tortured and unnatural word, not only an offence against nature but an abomination. He is, if you will, a victim of his own highly-developed aesthetic sensibility.
In closing, I draw the attention of Your Lordships to my client's fairly unblemished character and await that mercy which is the hallmark of all APSs (Apostrophe Appreciation Societies) throughout the civilized world.