By Plurals, Apostrophes

Re: Pizza's?

This is sometimes called the greengrocer's apostrophe, i.e. a redundant apostrophe before a plural inflection on notices promoting foodstuffs. (Potatoe's is also quite common.)Probably the establishment had found themselves with a surplus, after omitting apostrophes elsewhere (e.g. on the...

Re: Plurals of abbreviations - 1990's or 1990s

Actually, the possessive would be "ninteen ninties'" because you're talking about a possessive of the plural form, the decade is constituted by all of the years in total. So the abbreviated form of the possessive should be 1990s' - with the apostrophe after the s, just...

Re: Plurals of abbreviations - 1990's or 1990s

Hello fooladder, welcome to the forums. Obvioulsy, with the possessive, you use the apostrophe. It was a popular tune sometime back in the early 1990s. He has 1990's biggest hit record. (Obviously, a possessive.) EDITED for clarity -by this I mean the one year, 1990. He was the...

Re: Plurals of abbreviations - 1990's or 1990s

I think the p's and q's argument is most salient here. The apostrophe is used for the sake of clarity. While conventionally used for the possessive, the apostrophe is also used to indicate vernacular omissions and contractions, such as in the cases of "Ol' Dirty ***" or...

Re: Month's vs. Months

Sure: month => months.An apostrophe can be used only in some particular circumstances; for instance, for the plural form of a letter: How many c's are there in the word 'accommodation'?How many A's did you get?

Re: Plural Possessive of a Surname that does NOT end in 's'.

.The apostrophe after the plural Dittmans is correct for the possessive. However, it is an uncommon choice, and likely to be a source of continuing confusion (on the one hand) or nitpicking (on the other hand) for friends, customers and suppliers.I highly recommend Dittmann's Ahnapee Arts...

Plural Possessive of a Surname that does NOT end in 's'.

My parents are going into business, our last name is Dittmann, and they want to name their business "Dittmanns' Ahnapee Arts" (Ahnapee being a local township). Now, since the name is referring to both of them, and it would be posessive, would this above 's-apostrophe' be...

Re: Plural of s = s'es?

Seems that we are talking about different dictionaries instead of different versions. The name on the page you quoted does not have "Webster's". Anyway, why we need a plural for PS? A postscript is a short remark. Although it is possible that the "short" remark is not...

Re: Plural of s = s'es?

Sorry Yoong Liat, I think I didn't made it clear. The abbreviation of PS was made up arbitrarily. I didn't mean postscript. I could have used anything like BS, CS, DS, etc. in my question.Regarding the apostrophe for abbreviations, let me quote some of the references I've read:The...

Re: Plural of s = s'es?

What I've found surprises me. It seems that I was taught wrongly. Encarta Dictionary P.SS. or p.ss abbr Definition: postscripts Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This P.SS. postscripts.Also, p.ss. Resultspss was found in the Cambridge Advanced...