Schal330@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 28 days agoIt must be a silent Rlemmy.worldimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1598arrow-down121cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
arrow-up1577arrow-down1imageIt must be a silent Rlemmy.worldSchal330@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 28 days agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·28 days agoBy decades they meant “the 1970s” or “the 60s” I don’t know if we can rely on British popularity, given y’all’s prevalence of the “greengrocer’s apostrophe.”
minus-squareBeanie@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·28 days agoOh right - that would be the same category as numbers then. (Looked it up out of curiosity: using apostrophes isn’t incorrect, but it seems to be an older/less formal way of pluralising them.)
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-228 days agoNow, plurals aside, which is better, The 60s Or The '60s ?
By decades they meant “the 1970s” or “the 60s”
I don’t know if we can rely on British popularity, given y’all’s prevalence of the “greengrocer’s apostrophe.”
Oh right - that would be the same category as numbers then. (Looked it up out of curiosity: using apostrophes isn’t incorrect, but it seems to be an older/less formal way of pluralising them.)
Now, plurals aside, which is better,
The 60s
Or
The '60s
?