On vacation last week... :-)

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Erich T. Enke wrote:

> I thought it might be from words that normally don't have plurals, such as
> computer acronyms.  When someone comes across MTA for instance, how does
> one pluralize it?  MTAs doesn't look right to some people because of the
> change in case, MTAS is equally bad because the S appears to be part of
> the acronym.  So MTA's is introduced, giving a spacer between the acronym
> and the pluralizing s.

There is another reason, which is why I like to use 's in this case. It's
not that MTUs looks weird, it's that with the way computer acronyms are
made, MTUs is a perfectly consistent acronym. And a different one from
MTU. Thus the use of 's to remove the ambiguity.

Take care,

Bill