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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
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Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> this is a question to the native English speakers out there.
>
> If I write in the documentation
>
>    "Cross referencing with unique IDs is hard to document"
>
> do I then write
>
>     ids
>     IDs
>     id's
> or  ID's
>

IDs or ids is fine.  id's and ID's is possessive (the ID owns
something).

I'd probably use IDs in this case.

id is just short for identifier normally so 
... unique identifiers is hard ...
would also be fine.

HTH,
Bernt