Mea culpa. I should have written out the number in both my sample sentence,
"My son got five A's on his report card," AND in my last sentence, "Thank you
for providing a way for me to kill five minutes of this endless wait for
kickoff."
:-P
Cee
----- Original Message -----
From: Cecilia
To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:38 PM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] Today's Gatornews from Miami Herald and
Palm Beach Post
Actually, Zeb, that apostrophe is misplaced and often is, even in the writing
of learned folks. If you consult a writing handbook, you will find that a
reference to the years 1960-1969 should be written "'60s", not "60's", with the
leading apostrophe there to denote the omission of the 1 and the 9. The term
is not possessive, and, therefore, the apostrophe between the 0 and the s is
incorrect.
That being said, it is considered correct to insert an apostrophe when
pluralizing a letter. It is correct to write, for example, "My son got 5 A's
on his report card". That is done so that the reader will not confuse the
plural of "A" with the word "As".
Thank you for providing a way for me to kill 5 minutes of this endless wait
for kickoff...
Cee
----- Original Message -----
From: John Vega
To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:42 PM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] Today's Gatornews from Miami Herald
and Palm Beach Post
The apostrophe that I will never understand is why the decade of the
Sixties is often written as "60's" as opposed to "60s."
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