{"id":1876,"date":"2007-05-16T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2007-05-16T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T15:57:00","slug":"grammer-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/grammer-question","title":{"rendered":"grammer question.."},"content":{"rendered":"

On http:\/\/www.google.com\/technology\/, they talk about “low cost PC’s”.<\/p>\n

I’m unclear on why that gets a apostrophe. I agree that when I type PCs, it’s tempting to put a apostrophe there, but under what rule? I thought apostrophes either indicated possessiveness (and clearly the PCs don’t own themselves) or the contraction of multiple words (and again, not relevant). There’s a third usage – plurals, and that seems the most likely, since there are indeed many PCs, but then I looked up the rules.. http:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/handouts\/grammar\/g_spelnoun.html .. and it didn’t seem like that was the reason either. Of course, purdue.edu might be incorrect, and I do think the common usage is PC’s, but.. odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On http:\/\/www.google.com\/technology\/, they talk about “low cost PC’s”. I’m unclear on why that gets a apostrophe. I agree that when I type PCs, it’s tempting to put a apostrophe there, but under what rule? I thought apostrophes either indicated possessiveness (and clearly the PCs don’t own themselves) or the contraction of multiple words (and again, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}