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Re: Apostrophes for possessives only (not plurals) for .uk readers.

i.e.

The plural of CMS is CMSs

The plural for OER is OER as the 's' is embedded in OER ("Open Educational Resources").

An OER's components.

A CMS's registered users

Referring to many CMSs and OER:

The CMSs' features may be compared here.

The OERs' licenses would need to be compatible.

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Ktucker (talk)‎05:11, 3 July 2008

>>The plural of CMS is CMSs >>The plural for OER is OER as the 's' is embedded in OER ("Open Educational Resources").

I wonder if that might be confusing, making OER an exception.

>>The OERs' licenses would need to be compatible.

If the "s" is embedded, shouldn't it be OER' (though that seems strange).

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Sgurell (talk)‎05:50, 3 July 2008

Yes - strange as it may seem :-). So I would go with OER' for plural possessives.

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Ktucker (talk)‎18:18, 4 July 2008

I hate to be difficult, but if that's the case, then we probably should have had OER singular in all cases with the 's' and apostrophes added as needed.

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Sgurell (talk)‎05:20, 10 July 2008