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On 01/09/2021, ori@eigenstate.org <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
> 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'

I can't say I've ever heard of this, or why disambiguation in
particular would be the use when apostrophe-at-the-end *already* has a
well-known use.