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It must be a silent R (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Schal330@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bisby@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because otherwise if you have too many small letters in a row it stops looking like a plural and more like a misspelled word. Because capitalization differences you can make more sense of As but not so much as.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

As

That looks like an oddly capitalised "as"

That really gives the reason it's acceptable to use apostrophes when pluralising that sort of case