"3 UPS" or "3 UPSs" or "3 UPS's"?
Max Limitz
should I say "3 UPSs" or "3 UPS's"?
Max Limitz
http://maxlimitz.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-three-ups-enough.html
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
The conventional plural form would be UPSs or UPSes. UPS's is not
considered good.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
R H Draney
>
>On Mon, 18 May 2009 03:42:10 -0700 (PDT), Max Limitz
><max.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I posted a new blog post and started wondering is "3 UPS" correct or
>>should I say "3 UPSs" or "3 UPS's"?
>
>considered good.
...where you live.
....r
--
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An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
>BrE filted:
>>
>>On Mon, 18 May 2009 03:42:10 -0700 (PDT), Max Limitz
>><max.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I posted a new blog post and started wondering is "3 UPS" correct or
>>>should I say "3 UPSs" or "3 UPS's"?
>>
>>The conventional plural form would be UPSs or UPSes. UPS's is not
>>considered good.
>
>...where you live.
>
Yes. I very nearly didn't make any comment on "UPS's". I quite like the
idea of the possessive plural UPS's's.
D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
Max Limitz <max.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I posted a new blog post and started wondering is "3 UPS" correct or
>should I say "3 UPSs" or "3 UPS's"?
Dunno whether it's correct or not, but my habit is to write
'UPSs' and pronounce it 'upsez'. The version with the
apostrophe is intelligible but glaring (and yah, my eyes
would flit too and fro for an instant in an attempt to find
justification for its actually being a possessive, just in
case you had intended "[the] 3 UPSs' [batteries were all
dead]", for example, and had merely misplaced the apostrophe
by one position). "3 UPS" makes logical sense but would
also be the form most likely to lead to confusion, depending
on the context.
--
D. Glenn Arthur Jr./The Human Vibrator, dgl...@panix.com
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