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EyeSeeYou Posted 19 years ago
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CDs or CD's ?

0 VHS or VHS' ? DVD's or DVDs? Should there be used the ( 's ) for the plural of those nouns? I don't think so, since you don't say lion's but lions, or cats, not cat's, but it's just that I have seen it used in many publications or articles, hence my question... 0-
  

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0Yes, many people think that when you have a noun that is made up of only initials, like CD, you need an apostrophe to make it plural. You don't. CDs.

— BarbaraPA

  • 0Yes, many people think that when you have a noun that is made up of only initials, like CD, you need an apostrophe to make it plural.
  • You don't.
  • CDs.
  • 02br 02br 00As for VHS, isn't that a format, not a noun?
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0Yes, many people think that when you have a noun that is made up of only initials, like CD, you need an apostrophe to make it plural. You don't. CDs. DVDs.02br
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00As for VHS, isn't that a format, not a noun? VHS tapes.0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10Yes, many people think that when you have a noun that is made up of only initials, like CD, you need an apostrophe to make it plural. You don't. CDs. DVDs.12br
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10As for VHS, isn't that a format, not a noun? 10VHS tapes10.12br
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10Yes, many people think that when you have a noun that is made up of only initials, like CD, you need an apostrophe to make it plural. You don't. CDs. DVDs.12br
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0Absolutely. The 1990s, but the '90s. (Because the ' is used to show the missing numbers: 19)0-
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0How about this? Is it correctly spelled?02br
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0Yes, but I would spell that one out: In his thirties.0-
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Hi All,

I think that the reason people get this wrong (i.e. "cd's") is because they think in terms of abbreviation just as "phone" should really be written " 'phone" to indicate the missing "tele". There are letters missing when "compact discs" becomes "cds" and so they believe they are indicating the missing letters with the apostrophe ("isc"). However, if that were the case we would ne
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Hi ccrellin, and welcome to English Forums,
ccrellinAnother one that always confuses me is "its" as in "it doubled its capacity to seat 20,000". Normally with nouns we indicate belonging with an apostrophe, for example "the table's legs" or "Claire's computer" but for "it" we do not do this...even though capacity is belonging to "it" (non-specified noun) in my example.
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I never use an apostrophe with these abbreviations, unless it would cause confusion without the apostrophe, e.g. when the abbreviation is a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters.

So the following plural forms look OK to me:

CDs, DVDs, UFOs, PhD's.
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Yeap, the correct version is CDs; CD's is incorrect!
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