• @bisby@lemmy.world
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      181 year ago

      Because otherwise if you have too many small letters in a row it stops looking like a plural and more like a misspelled word. Because capitalization differences you can make more sense of As but not so much as.

      • @psud@aussie.zone
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        51 year ago

        As

        That looks like an oddly capitalised “as”

        That really gives the reason it’s acceptable to use apostrophes when pluralising that sort of case

      • It’s not stupid. It’s just the bastard child of Germany, Dutch, French, Celtic and Scandinavian and tries to pretend this mix of influences is cool and normal.

          • ✺roguetrick✺
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            11 year ago

            There are plenty of non Norman consensual French words and the Danes had as much a right to be there as the Angles and the Saxons did in kicking the celts out. Let’s not even talk about if the anglo-Saxons had more legitimate claim than the norse-gaels.