• houndeyes@toast.oooEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    Is it ever appropriate to use an apostrophe to pluralize a word?

    I stumbled upon exceptions on Wikipedia not long ago including, e.g., pluralizing single letters (Oakland A’s) and symbols (#'s).

    • uberfreeza@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 days ago

      I was wondering about that. I assumed there wasn’t exceptions, because those can still be possessive. Oakland A’s members or 13’s unlucky superstition. I’m not surprised though, because English is a stupid mess of a language.