ajuk
Established
I just noticed the name of the forum "120 RF's" I think that should be "120 RFs" If acronyms took contracting apostrophes then the singular would be RF' but it's not it's just RF.
Out to Lunch
Menteur
Approved by the Apostrophes Master of the Universe. Carry on.
FrankS
Registered User
Noted. Thanks. And as Peter said: Carry on.
R
rpsawin
Guest
Thank GOD that's cleared up...I can finally sleep well again.
Bob
Bob
Sparrow
Mentor
I'm so glad you remembered the capitalisation following a colon; well done
squirrel$$$bandit
Mentor
blindrobert
Established
I thought apostrophes were used to pluralize lowercase letters and abbreviations containing internal punctuation or abbreviations ending with the letter S:
He holds two Ph.D.'s.l
Three x's in a row wins.
They sent SOS's over three frequencies.
No?
Ezzie
E. D. Russell Roberts
My understanding too.
j j
Well-known
Nope. Possessive or contraction.
kshapero
South Florida Man
plauralise? That's a word?
tomalophicon
Well-known
RF doesn't end with S.
Corto
Well-known
My camera's dont care.
gb hill
Mentor
I pretty much flunked anything to do with the english language so I never noticed.
f16sunshine
Moderator
My colon just coughed up an apostrophe...
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
Thats excellent; thank's for clearing it up for us.
FrankS
Registered User
For me, it improves readability, to place an apostrophe between an acronym and a suffix.
Roger Hicks
Mentor
What about greengrocer's (and everything they sell, such as carrot's, onion's)? It's known in English as the Greengrocers' Apostrophe.
Cheers,
R.
Cheers,
R.
pggunn
gregor
I believe the apostrophe is correct in RF's because as blindrobert said, it's an abbreviation, and the apostrophe stands for the missing letters in rangefinders.
andredossantos
Well-known
If I started worrying about grammer on the interwebs, I'd probably need to start some sort of blood pressure medication regimen.
bensyverson
Well-known
Seriously, talk about tilting at windmills