P3D Re: Is it 50s or 50's?

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: revchas@xxxxxxxx <revchas@xxxxxxxx>


>>I used to write 50's but someone - an editor - correct it to
>>50s ... but that doesn't look right... is it right?
>
>Yes, it's 50s.


I concur with the esteemed Rev. Chas.  The apostrophe (') is used to
denote a possessive (e.g. "George's collection") or a contraction (e.g.
"doesn't", "can't").  The one exception I can think of is with the
pronoun "it", where "it's" is the contraction of "it is" (as used
correctly by the Rev. in his reply), but "its" is the possessive form
(i.e. "belonging to it").  Not unlike "his" and "hers" in this respect.

English often seems to have more exceptions than normal cases.

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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