Actually URL is an initialism -- it's only an acronym if you pronounce
it as a word (e.g., LASER is an acronym, UPS isn't).
Dave
On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Paul D. Healey wrote:
> Not that I'm an authority, but it seems to me that all of the Webster
> examples cited relate to words that are not usually used as a plural and
> require an apostrophe to signal their use in that context. URL as an
> acronym is a noun and (I think) properly pluralized by simply adding the
> letter s.
> Just my opinion...
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