Wow,
I am blown away by the flood of answers with various degrees of
explanations.
Thank you all very much.
- Carsten
On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Peter Frings wrote:
On 10 Dec 2008, at 17:13, Womick, Don wrote:
's always indicates possession, never plurality.
I don't think there's a
Hi Carsten,
"IDs" is correct.
Some older manuals of style suggest using "ID's", but "IDs" is the
most widely accepted plural form of the abbreviation.
Matt
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> this is a question to the native English speakers out there.
>
> If I write in the
On 10 Dec 2008, at 17:13, Womick, Don wrote:
's always indicates possession, never plurality.
I don't think there's a hard-and-fast choice between "IDs" and "ids",
but "IDs" looks better to me, since it's clear that you're using an
abbreviation. But if you write "id" (singular), be consistent
Hi Carsten,
If you write "IDs", it is correct. Please do not be misled by my
having written "org-id's". "ID's" used to be correct, but no longer.
I was treating org-id as a variable, and org-ids would have been
confusing. I often type in lowercase and then capitalize sentences
before sending.
), be consistent and write
"ids" (plural).
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Hi,
this is a question
Hi,
this is a question to the native English speakers out there.
If I write in the documentation
"Cross referencing with unique IDs is hard to document"
do I then write
ids
IDs
id's
or ID's
Thanks.
- Carsten
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