From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9137 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, June 15 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9137 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Vertigo and dizziness is just a normal part of aging. ["Benign Vertigo" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:12:18 -0400 From: "Benign Vertigo" Subject: Vertigo and dizziness is just a normal part of aging. Vertigo and dizziness is just a normal part of aging. http://witnesses.za.com/qj7wu9rg7_lWbEJEWAQwV7_tiYw-5-h4cuJD4NbnNtK5F7AwDQ http://witnesses.za.com/LE2ezFEL9yBvTBTNDXr0XnLbo3yaB90u84eQw3b0iJopiBcCvg gument that acronyms should have no different plural form (for example, "If D can stand for disc, it can also stand for discs") is in general disregarded because of the practicality in distinguishing singulars and plurals. This is not the case, however, when the abbreviation is understood to describe a plural noun already: For example, "U.S." is short for "United States", but not "United State". In this case, the options for making a possessive form of an abbreviation that is already in its plural form without a final "s" may seem awkward: for example, "U.S.", "U.S.'s", etc. In such instances, possessive abbreviations are often forgone in favor of simple attributive usage (for example, "the U.S. economy") or expanding the abbreviation to its full form and then making the possessive (for example, "the United States' economy"). On the other hand, in speech, the pronunciation "United States's" is sometimes used. Abbreviations that come from single, rather than multiple, words b such as "TV" ("television") b are usually pluralized without apostrophes ("two TVs"); most writers feel that the apostrophe should be reserved for the possessive ("the TV's antenna"). In some languages, the convention of doubling the letters in the acronym is used to indicate plural words: for example, the Spanish EE.UU., for Estados Unidos ('United States'). This old convention is still followed for a limited number of English abbreviations, such as SS. for "Saints", pp. for the Latin plural of "pages", paginae, or MSS for "manuscripts". In the case of pp. it derives from the original Latin phr ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9137 **********************************************