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13-Nov-2005, 15:26
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 The plural of an abbreviation In the legends of road maps, etc., you would see "20 km". But how would you write this colloquially? Eg. "I can’t be bothered reading e-mails that I have to scroll down through 10 km/kms of headers to get to the body of!" By the way, does anyone have any preferences re. where to place the preposition "of"? "I can’t be bothered reading e-mails that I have to scroll down through 10 km of headers to get to the body of!" "I can’t be bothered reading e-mails that I have to scroll down through 10 km of headers of to get to the body!" Thanks, Bill |
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14-Nov-2005, 04:12
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| Re: The plural of an abbreviation I'd use kms. Colloquially, I'd put 'of' at the end. I don't like the second email sentence.  |
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14-Nov-2005, 16:16
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| Re: The plural of an abbreviation Thank you, tdol. Regarding those two sentences, I seem to recall grammarians frowning on ending a sentence in a preposition, so I was a little sceptical. Glad to have a second opinion! Take care, Bill |
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