[OT] Pluralizing acronyms (was: Re: [TCLUG] Speaker for next weeks TCLUG meeting)

[Jima]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Yaron wrote:
> LART _is_ singular. Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool.

 But, like many acronyms, the common way of pluralizing it is adding an 
"s" (usually lowercase) to the end.  In this case, "LARTs" would be plural 
for "LART."  If you expanded the acronym, the "s" ends up in the correct 
place.  This becomes a grey area when pluralizing things like "BOFH," or 
"MIB," where the word that would be pluralized isn't necessarily at the 
end (or would be pluralized with a "s").

     Jima