Re: apostrophe

[Bill Briggs <web@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:55 AM -0700 16/05/2000, m w wrote:
>Please consider the following:
>
>When less than three 0's are detected
>
>
>I believe that there should be no apostrophe in the above statement; however, I have some other tech writers here who think that you need to have an apostrophe after a single letter or number in order to make it plural.
>
>Who is right?

You use apostrophes when you show possession (Jane's book) and when you create a contraction (it's good), or to replace missing letters ("sniff 'n' snuff"), not when you make something plural. I don't buy the "it's a style issue" argument. It's "in the 60s", not "in the 60's". The better solution would be to write it out in words and avoid the use of digits.

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