Re: lynx-dev [PATCH] grammar correction to LYMessages_en

[Doug Kaufman]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Ismael Cordeiro wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, the URL's instead of URLs is a bug in many, MANY files in
> > the lynx distribution.

Although it would be nice to be consistent throughout the code, I
am not sure why some are saying that "URL's" is incorrect grammar.
Leaving out the apostrophe seems to be a recent innovation. There
clearly would be no need for the apostrophe if it were "U.R.L.s",
but without the periods in the acronym, I believe that "URL's" falls
within the acceptable "non-possessive 's" rules as described in
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Does anyone have a
citation to say that this is incorrect grammar?
                          Doug
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