That's half-right. Upper-case letters aren't pluralised with apostrophes but lower-case letters are. (So the plural of 'R' is 'Rs' but the plural of 'r' is 'r's'.) With numbers (written as '123') it's optional - IIRC, it's more popular in Britain to pluralise with apostrophes and more popular in America to pluralise without. (And of course numbers written as words are never pluralised with apostrophes.) Acronyms are indeed not pluralised with apostrophes if they're written in all caps. I'm not sure what you mean by decades.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Why use for lowercase?

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev -4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Because English is stupid

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not stupid. It's just the bastard child of Germany, Dutch, French, Celtic and Scandinavian and tries to pretend this mix of influences is cool and normal.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Victim blaming and ableism!

The French and Scandinavian bits were NOT consensual.

(Don't forget Latin btw)

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There are plenty of non Norman consensual French words and the Danes had as much a right to be there as the Angles and the Saxons did in kicking the celts out. Let's not even talk about if the anglo-Saxons had more legitimate claim than the norse-gaels.

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