HotForWords » Mind your P’s and Q’s http://hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:55:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Mind your P’s and Q’s http://hotforwords.com/2008/10/03/mind-your-ps-and-qs/ http://hotforwords.com/2008/10/03/mind-your-ps-and-qs/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:14:12 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=1427

What exactly are your P’s and Q’s?

Oh… when you show the plural of single letters, you use an apostrophe… it’s weird, I know… but it’s true.   You can show capital single, plural letters without the apostrophe, but the preferred method is to use the apostrophe for consistency.

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