P3D Re: 50's or 50s

[Ronald Beck <ronald-beck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>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)


Or, would it be '50s?  Usually you signify 1950 as '50 when abbreviating
the year.

I would expect proper grammer to be...
(Example 1) 1957's the year I was born.  (i.e. 1957 is the year...)  

(Example 2) In the 1950s (several years from 1950 through 1959) land in
Plano was cheap!  

(Example 3) In the late '50s and early '60s I gave my parents much joy. 
Then I hit my teen years!

Sorry to throw another "wrench" in the works.

Regards,
Ron


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