Date   : Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:36:43 -0700
From   : "Saddler, Chris" <chris.saddler@...>
Subject: Re: Signitures

>> So you're saying it's wrong in English to write something like 1970's?

>Yes.  In the same way that pluralising "cat" as "cats" doesn't need an
>apostrophe, pluralising "10" to "10s" works, because to get "tens" you
>just append an s to "ten".  Nothing has been missed out.  

>The principle is operated in exactly the same way even for words where
>the plural form, if spelt out, is not just a case of adding an s.  So
>changing "70" to "70s" is correct even though the word "seventy" has to
>be regarded as changing to "seventie" before the s is appended.

But it seems to me that in the phrase, 70's music, an apostrophe is
justified since there is a possessive element i.e. music belonging to the
70s.

Returning to the original OT subject of this thread, where are the rigid
rules of news group message format defined?


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Chris