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Subject: Re: [9front] joystick support docs
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Quoth Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@gmail.com>:
> Nope - apostrophe is preferred for "awkward plurals".

The general rule is that apostrophes
indicate posession, not plurals.

Some style guides suggest putting it
after the word when things are ambiguous,
like so:

	ids => ids'
	as => as'

but as programmers, I'd rather quote
to remove any ambiguity at all, if
needed:

	'id's
	'a's

while it's not standard, it fits well
in a technical context.