Re: Plural Form

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

In article <363AB77E.1B2FE1FB@swbell.net>,
rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
>Wayne Stewart writes ...

>> I've always balked at calling group of IIe machines IIes. It looks
>> like another model halfway between the IIe and the IIgs. Could
>> anyone suggest a satisfactory way of writting this

>      Still, "a flock of IIe computers" is sort of neat.

They're Apples.  They come in bushels.  "A //e bushel" or "//e bushels". :-)

Or you could go with the "Attorneys General" route and call them "Apples //e".

Or just assume the reader has a clue and call them //es.  It's better to
be right than wrong.  If the reader gets confused, it's his fault, not
yours.

By confusing plurals with possessives, what happens when you need a
possessive plural?  "All the //e's's drives were jammed with tractor-feed
paper strips"?

(Let's not get into the ][e vs. IIe vs. //e debate.)

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