A grammatical question.

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  1. salamander9o
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    Hi!

    Over the years I often stumble upon people creating plurals via adding " 's". Naturally, this is incorrect, as 's is possessive. Now, many, grammatically-respected people seem to use 's when making a plural with words such as DVD and such, words that are fully capped.

    Now, I believe for this to be incorrect. May anyone clear this up for me?
     
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    If you're asking if plural DVD is DVDs, or DVD's, it's DVDs, digital video discs, being plural, not digital video disc's, being the possessive, or a contraction of two words
     
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    Yeah, thought so. Not just that word, just words like that. Thanks Deku. Lock please. :)
     
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