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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Convention for naming of anything
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
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> BrianG <me@null.email> writes:
>
>> What about X's for plural?
>
> No, no!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostrophes_.28.22greengrocers.27_apostrophes.22.29

Cool. I always thought that the 's plurals littering the comments in 
Janus/Ada (put there by others; I'm forever removing them) were illiteracy, 
but now I know that they are just archaic. Big difference. :-)

                                         Randy.