• corsicanguppyEnglish
    376·
    11 hours ago

    90’s

    '90s

    #weDoNotPluraliseWithApostrophes

    • skisnowEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      That’s like, your opinion, man. It’s not a universally agreed-on rule.

      New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (1999):

      decades should usually be given in numerals: the 1990’s; the mid-1970’s; the 90’s. But when a decade begins a sentence it must be spelled out.

      The Chicago Manual of Style (2003):

      9.37 Decades. Decades are either spelled out (as long as the century is clear) and lowercased or expressed in numerals. No apostrophe appears between the year and the s.

      Same goes for initialisms, e.g. CDs vs CD’s.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 hours ago

        The CD’s (singular) tracks and the CDs’ (plural) tracks. Or would it be CD’s’? That’s my one gripe with putting the apostrophe s for acronyms.

        But then when talking about someone getting “all As” in school, it’s easy there to realize what’s being said, but when someone asks “What grades did you get in school?” And you respond “As,” now it’s just the word as.

        Grammarizing spoken word is a major part of my job and I think about this shit all the time, and sometimes things conflict, and it’s dumb, it’s all dumb! That’s it!

    • lobut
      12·
      11 hours ago

      but it belongs to the 90s! 👀

      • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
        8·
        9 hours ago

        Posting this here because this is the most recent instance: every time I see deleted by creator on Lemmy, my first thought is always “damn, God REALLY did not like that comment.”