From an ad from a nursery:
Available to Everyone
Residential or Commercial
Home Owners
Schools
Churches
H.O.A.'s
Golf Courses
Land Mgt. Co's
Cities
Business'
Apartments
Some grammarians allow an apostrophe plus an "s" after an acronym like HOA, so I guess I don't have a quibble with H.O.A.'s. As far as Co's, that is OK because it is an abbreviation. I do, however, object to Business'. That is definitely wrong. What I don't get is the writer pluralized apartments and other nouns correctly (no apostrophe). It must just be a careless error, but I still can't imagine making it.
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Isn't it Grammar Girl who advocates forming plurals with apostrophes only when doing otherwise would create a new word?
I love such simple advice.
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