- From: Hurley, Oisin <oisin.hurley@iona.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:10:04 -0000
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
>-----Original Message----- >From: Misha Wolf [mailto:Misha.Wolf@reuters.com] >Sent: 27 November 2002 16:12 >To: www-tag@w3.org >Subject: Cool titles don't change > > > >Section: > 7.2. Non-Normative References > http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#informative >of: > Architecture of the World Wide Web > http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ >has an entry for: > "Cool URI's don't change" T. Berners-Lee, W3C, 1998 > Available at http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI. > >Two aspects concern me: > >1. The document in question is titled: > Cool URIs don't change > not: > Cool URI's don't change > >2. English plurals don't use apostrophes. If they did, > we would write: > apple's and pear's > rather than: > apples and pears > >Misha A quick trawl of the public resources indicates that while indeed English plurals don't currently use apostrophes (although they used to, see [1]), using an apostrophe to indicate the plural of an acronym is an accepted practice albeit possibly a declining one. --oh [1] http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=441020&secid
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