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A) sounds like you can't handle them.

B) Style norms change over time. Using an apostrophe in that case used to be the common style, now it's the uncommon style. It's likely to disappear over time, like the periods that used to be present to let us know ETF was an acronym.

Sorry, mate, usage defines language, and there are many more of us than there are of you.

Wait what? It is normal now to use an apostrophe for plurals? That just seems like extra work.

For acronyms, often enough yes. It separates the acronym from the pluralization, making it clear the "s" isn't part of it.

I see people make the error a lot, I've never before seen someone (or considered that they might) argue it's correct!

Thank you for your suggestion.

Except for Internet talk, I haven’t really seen this. It’s much more common for ESL speakers to struggle with English’s rules for apostrophes, especially when they come across the dreaded s’ and s’s cases.

I see this pretty frequently even in business communications with native speakers. Even using apostrophes for pluralizing is surprisingly common.

To be fair, I've caught autocorrect inserting apostrophes in my plurals more than once.

Apostrophes for plurals are sometimes the better choice, despite what style guides may say, for informal communication where acronyms are used and the lack of an ' may confuse people who think that the final lowercase s should be uppercase and part of the acronym.

As Orwell said, sometimes using some barbaric language construct is better than adhering to perfect style :-)

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