>> We Americans don't use it. My "English" teacher in school would have
>> failed me for such usage. <g>
>
>That's the problem -- we still have 'English' teachers instead of
>'Americish' teachers... <G>

Right or wrong, most Americans are convinced that what is taught in our
schools is "English."

There was an early episode of "All in the Family" where Archie Bunker was
complaining about watching a foreign film on TV, "and they didn't even use
subtitles!" Asked what language the film was in, he replied "British."

Rick Carter
carterrk
Chair, Delphi/Paradox SIG, Cincinnati PC Users Group

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Q Correll wrote:

> It's common practice to separate the "s" of a plural abbreviation or
> acronym with an apostrophe.

Huh? Since when?

"GrandmasterB" <Fizzle> wrote in message
news:9b21
>.. iPhones are first and foremost a fashion accessory...

That's nonesense.
I've owned one for a while now and it is literally
the best phone I've ever owned.

I don't care about all the avaiable software.
I just care about the basic features I need and how
well Apple implemented them - Better than any other
phone I've personally seen or used in the past.

Having large on screen buttons makes the
phone easy to use whether you are dialing,
using the calculator etc.

The large touch-screen makes the display much
easier to use at night in low light areas and allows
for a much larger and easier to read font.

I don't care about the camera, level, stock market info
etc... For me it is first and foremost a telephone and
an excellent one at that.

best regards

Rudy,

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:55:36 +0100, Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]
<newsgroups> wrote:
>> It's common practice to separate the "s" of a plural abbreviation or
>> acronym with an apostrophe.
>
> Huh? Since when?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural (see "Plurals of symbols and
initialisms")

And I'm sure I've read somewhere that apostrophe-s was ye olde waye of
indicating AEnglisc plural's

In article <48728db0$1>, Roddy Pratt wrote:
> There's a narrow bridge near here, and the council have carefully
> painted 10-ft long letters on the road showing where HGVs (= trucks)
> should position themselves. It says:-
>
> HGV'S
>
> Needless to say, they've promised a man with a flamethrower will come
> and remove the offending punctuation, but I doubt they'll bother to fix
> the letter spacing!

Though they could argue that in this case it denotes missing letters as
per HGVehicleS - not the case with greengrocers' apple's

Oxford dictionary seems to accept that either HGVs or HGV's is acceptable
usage

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexper.../pizza?view=uk

Paul Scott wrote:

> Rudy,
>
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:55:36 +0100, Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]
> <newsgroups> wrote:
> > > It's common practice to separate the "s" of a plural abbreviation
> > > or acronym with an apostrophe.
> >
> > Huh? Since when?
>
> [..] (see "Plurals of
> symbols and initialisms")

<<
Individual letters and abbreviations whose plural would be ambiguous if
only an -s were added are pluralized by adding -'s.
>>

This is seldom the case.

Rudy,

| Huh? Since when?

Ever since I was in high school. Don't have a clue when it began. <g>

Please see my reference to HHH in another reply.

Rudy,

| This is seldom the case.

That doesn't change the fact that 's is regularly accepted and used. <g>

I guess no one consulted you prior to it becoming common practice. ;-)

On 2008-07-04, Diego <diego> wrote:
> Apropos the previous discussion about Apple being the only avenue via
> which people can submit applications; this is exactly the reason why
> Apple has to control things.

Well, I always thought it was to keep it exclusive (aka overpriced?)

On 2008-07-09 08:37:22 +1000, Marco van de Voort <marcov> said:

> On 2008-07-04, Diego <diego> wrote:
>> Apropos the previous discussion about Apple being the only avenue via
>> which people can submit applications; this is exactly the reason why
>> Apple has to control things.
>
> Well, I always thought it was to keep it exclusive (aka overpriced?)

Overpriced? Or some people are cheap?

Q Correll wrote:
>Please see my reference to HHH in another reply.

Darn it! You had me searching to try to find out where you cited Hubert
Horatio Humphrey, only to find out that wasn't the case!

Rick Carter
carterrk
Chair, Delphi/Paradox SIG, Cincinnati PC Users Group

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Rick,

| Darn it! You had me searching to try to find out where you cited Hubert
| Horatio Humphrey, only to find out that wasn't the case!

ROFL!

RandomAccess wrote:

> I don't care about the camera, level, stock market info
> etc... For me it is first and foremost a telephone and
> an excellent one at that.

Let's face it - it doesn't take much to make a better PHONE than most
of the current crop of nonsense out there. I've just swapped the SIM
from my Orange SPV700 (=HTC Trinity) back into my nokia 6310i. This
*is* an experiment at the moment, but I can't see myself switching back.

The smartphone will still travel with me on some trips, as it's bit of
a swiss army knife (gps, music player, camera, wifi web browser,
address book) but NOT with a sim in it. As a phone, it simply isn't
good enough.

Just saw this - so I'm not alone!

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12...through_phone/


- Roddy

Roddy Pratt wrote:

> back into my nokia 6310i. This

Yay!

> Just saw this - so I'm not alone!

You most certainly are not. :-)

There is actually a UK website dedicated to selling refurbished models
and spare parts.

http://www.6310i.co.uk/store/

Andy Syms wrote:

> You most certainly are not. :-)

Andy,

Did you used to work at Micro Consultants, around 1981, by any chance?
Your name seems familiar...?

- Roddy