- From: Thomas Baker <baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:54:42 +0200
- To: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Cc: Thomas Baker <baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de>, SWD Working Group <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:40:44PM +0200, Antoine Isaac wrote: > >-- The plural of "KOS". The draft used "KOSs" or just > > "KOS", as in "many existing KOS". The Chicago Manual of > > Style recommends "KOS's". "KOSes" would be possible. I have > > normalized everything to "KOS's" for now, though I don't > > really like the way it looks. If the KOS community has an > > established way to pluralize KOS, I suggest we follow that. > > I also don't like this apostrophe as well. Plus we're using URIs and not > URI's... > Actually we could be saved by the W3C manual of style: > http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#ref-PLURAL which cites > http://xml.coverpages.org/properSpellingForPluralOfDTD.html , itself > rather against the use of apostrophe ;-) > > For the moment I'm gonna keep KOS's but that's just waiting for others > to confirm my understanding of the above references. Chicago Manual of Style recommends adding the apostrophe only when the acronym ends with "s"...:-) Still, I'm convinced - "KOSs" is better. Tom -- Tom Baker - tbaker@tbaker.de - baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de
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