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From: Matthew Lundin <Matthew.Lundin@valpo.edu>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Language question
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:42:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vdtsniir.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8260CEF3-AEEF-4E9C-824D-2DBD184671BC@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Wed\, 10 Dec 2008 16\:18\:10 +0100")


Hi Carsten,

"IDs" is correct. 

Some older manuals of style suggest using "ID's", but "IDs" is the
most widely accepted plural form of the abbreviation.

Matt

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

> Hi,
>
> 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
>
> ????
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 15:18 Language question Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 15:36 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-12-10 16:14   ` Ian Barton
2008-12-10 16:18   ` OT: " Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 15:42 ` Matthew Lundin [this message]
2008-12-10 16:13 ` Womick, Don
2008-12-10 17:05   ` Peter Frings
2008-12-10 17:25     ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 17:03 ` Samuel Wales

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