From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c39ad3e35a7690a9 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.226.10 with SMTP id ro10mr11469689pbc.6.1329650180006; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:16:20 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni43338pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Convention for naming of anything Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:16:17 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <8e9750ec-add5-442d-b4f3-597235213d26@r1g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="16207"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+sj/rsjLXlre6HAo1r1AZV4ogrMJgqadA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:U2dOJiJdHyNvO4yXH8R7ooyGVUU= sha1:BacV5IYW1bZyY90DS5j5vABZNJQ= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-02-19T11:16:17+00:00 List-Id: BrianG writes: > What about Xʹs for plural? No, no! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostrophes_.28.22greengrocers.27_apostrophes.22.29