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Answer: Which is correct, "X's and Y's" or "X and Y's"?

Dec 01, 2008 19:40

...with examples from Stargate Atlantis and NCIS...

Question: Which is correct, "X's and Y's" or "X and Y's"?

( Mind Your P's and Q's )

usage:possessives, punctuation:possessive form, punctuation:apostrophe, !answer, author:skroberts

Comments 3

tejas December 2 2008, 05:17:10 UTC

I believe the Chicago Manual of Style says not to use the apostrophe with letters that aren't followed by periods. So, XYZs would be the correct plural while X.Y.Z.'s would the correct plural for that.

Sadly, I don't have my Chicago handy, so I can't look it up. :-(

skroberts December 3 2008, 02:28:09 UTC

I didn't want to go too much into such since someone should be writing a whole post on apostrophes eventually, but yeah, each style manual says something different. :P

tejas December 3 2008, 02:29:04 UTC

Oh, good. ;-) Glad I didn't dream it. ;-)