Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.telenor.com!news.telenor.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:11:29 -0500 From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: OT "sic"? (was Re: Binary Search) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <90gfdtFmkU2@mid.individual.net> User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20100522 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.35-28-generic-pae (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:11:29 -0500 Lines: 12 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-KoDrapZbo9ZISTvauHltEtddMWaPQ59WUFOqIf4L5ayr52wimUKW7lfRHnqkJ1P6o65lllKykJWjrRB!68EnVyr+kwcizoZBrWiDfdqILyme6MfLk0ekPoLiBLZY+RWiKz3LPqI637hKBHdVNoPrfQ4a+0CA!IlovVtJ7 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@telenor.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: news-abuse@telenor.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1621 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3034 Lew wrote: > > But not "K" or "T". That's a matter of style: some style guides recommend the use of an apostrophe to mark plurals of individual letters, some do not. See "Eat, Shoots & Leaves -- The zero tolerance approach to punctuation" by Lynne Truss for a funny but in-depth discussion of the uses of apostrophes. -- Leif Roar Moldskred