Wednesday, January 7, 2015

grammatical number - Pluralization of acronyms

I have seen the following questions: Pluralization of acronyms ending in 'S', What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym? or Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?




In all of them, the plural of in the extended form goes in the end:




One compact disk, two compact disks



One automated teller machines, two automated teller machines




My question is, what about acronyms (or initialisms...) such as





One rotation per hour: 1 RPH



Two rotations per hour: 2 ???




(Note that RPH is a home-made acronym.)
Obviously RsPH is not an appropriate choice, but RPHs seems a bit strange (I would be fine for rotation per hours, but maybe not for rotations per hour).



Any piece of advice?

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