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P3D Re: 50s

  • From: Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: 50s
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:27:53 -0400
At 04:27 AM 6/20/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Has apostrophe man struck again? 50s or '50s, but surely not 50's.

The Harbrace College Handbook (7th edition) says that either 1950s or
1950's is correct.  I don't have Strunk & White or the Chicago Manual of
Style, but I'm fairly certain that at least one of them also approves of
1950's as correct.

-pd


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