Mind your Ps and Qs

I didn't mention it here, but I asked myself recently, "Kevin, how does one pluralize a letter? It seems silly to put an apostrophe there, because the apostrophe is clearly only meant to signify the possessive!"

Well, my answer came along in a great blog post today at Daily Writing Tips. No apostrophes ever! Even with lower case letters, in which case, if you feel like it, you can put them in quotes like so - "p"s and "q"s - though it looks a little funny.

I don't really mean to keep writing about grammar over here - the topic is supposed to be editing. The two just go hand in hand. There's plenty of grammarians out there, and I don't intend to join their pontificating ranks.