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    Quote Originally Posted by Methmatician View Post
    Is that an American thing? I've always written it with the apostrophe.
    I've always written it with an apostrophe as well, I'm not sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katariina View Post
    A dickhead is a more serious synonym for asshole/jerk-off. Young, vulgar men use this most often lol
    Oh ok. In Australia it's usually used in the same way as 'dumbass' in America. I think it's more commonly used here than in the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proctor View Post
    I've always written it with an apostrophe as well, I'm not sure.
    I don't know if it's a regionalism or not, but the apostrophe properly belongs at the front: '90s vs. 90's. It's used to replace eliminated letters, or in this case numbers. That's the way I learned it anyway. I'm sure you found that interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smitty View Post
    I don't know if it's a regionalism or not, but the apostrophe properly belongs at the front: '90s vs. 90's. It's used to replace eliminated letters, or in this case numbers. That's the way I learned it anyway. I'm sure you found that interesting.
    whaaaat the fuuuug


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    Quote Originally Posted by Proctor View Post
    whaaaat the fuuuug

    The apostrophe is sometimes used with -s to form the plural of letters, numerals, abbreviations, symbols, and words as words. […] The use of -'s to form the plurals of numerals, abbreviations and symbols is not now as common as pluralization with simple -s: 1970s, CPUs, &s are more likely to be found than their apostrophized counterparts.

    According Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smitty View Post
    I don't know if it's a regionalism or not, but the apostrophe properly belongs at the front: '90s vs. 90's. It's used to replace eliminated letters, or in this case numbers. That's the way I learned it anyway. I'm sure you found that interesting.
    Quote Originally Posted by Methmatician View Post
    The apostrophe is sometimes used with -s to form the plural of letters, numerals, abbreviations, symbols, and words as words. […] The use of -'s to form the plurals of numerals, abbreviations and symbols is not now as common as pluralization with simple -s: 1970s, CPUs, &s are more likely to be found than their apostrophized counterparts.

    According Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.
    This is too much to take in right now, holy shit. Nearly everyone I know here writes it as "90's" you guys just turned my world upside down. Must be some kind of weird regionalism thing, any other New Englanders here who do the same?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham View Post
    When you say Bloody nora, instead of just bloody. That is when Then British thing has gone too far.
    An interesting theory for the origin of 'bloody' is that it began as 'by Our Lady' i.e. the Virgin Mary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proctor View Post
    This is too much to take in right now, holy shit. Nearly everyone I know here writes it as "90's" you guys just turned my world upside down. Must be some kind of weird regionalism thing, any other New Englanders here who do the same?
    They're both correct just that adding the apostrophe is considered more 'old fashioned'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Methmatician View Post
    They're both correct just that adding the apostrophe is considered more 'old fashioned'.
    90's is not correct because the apostrophe stands for nothing, as it would not do in "ninety's/ninetie's". It is not needed.

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    Well, anyways, what do you guys call bubblers? water fountains? drinking fountains?

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