Resurrection: Usborne's Classic Books On Ghosts To Be Re-Published
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There is, but UFO is not an acronym.
I'd still like to hear this case, mind you.
Even those (respected) sources that use them (I do not), only use them when the initialism has full-stops/periods after each initial: U.F.O.'s (or U.F.O.'S in a headline) but UFOs.
Usborne's book has no stops. And, indeed, they corrected their mistake in later (otherwise uglier) editions:
I'd still like to hear this case, mind you.
Even those (respected) sources that use them (I do not), only use them when the initialism has full-stops/periods after each initial: U.F.O.'s (or U.F.O.'S in a headline) but UFOs.
Usborne's book has no stops. And, indeed, they corrected their mistake in later (otherwise uglier) editions:
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I have that book at work.
Swan is a descriptivist. He thinks that if enough people make an error, it isn't really an error.
My alternative for He writes his b's as d's. is He writes his 'b's as 'd's., using inverted commas instead of apostrophes.
The only sympathy I have is when you are writing initialisms/acronyms in ALL CAPS for headlines:
MULTIPLE UFOs SEEN OVER LONDON
That looks incongruous.
Swan is a descriptivist. He thinks that if enough people make an error, it isn't really an error.
My alternative for He writes his b's as d's. is He writes his 'b's as 'd's., using inverted commas instead of apostrophes.
The only sympathy I have is when you are writing initialisms/acronyms in ALL CAPS for headlines:
MULTIPLE UFOs SEEN OVER LONDON
That looks incongruous.