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From: Matthew Lundin <Matthew.Lundin@valpo.edu>
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:42:52 -0600
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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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>
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