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P3D Re: 50s

  • From: Andy Beals <bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: 50s
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:55:18 -0700
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:30:50 -0600, Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <4.1.19990620092652.00985670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> thou hast written:
>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.

No doubt 1950's is a posessive, i.e. "belonging to the years 1950-1959".  


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