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Apostrophes for plurals are sometimes the better choice, despite what style guides may say, for informal communication where acronyms are used and the lack of an ' may confuse people who think that the final lowercase s should be uppercase and part of the acronym.

As Orwell said, sometimes using some barbaric language construct is better than adhering to perfect style :-)



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