I really hope I am posting in the right forum and location. My apologies if it is incorrect.  Essentially, I have a strange problem that occurs when the first use of an acronym happens to be in plural form. In that case, an 's' is appended in front of the short form as well as in the end. This happens not only for this particular one, but also several other acronyms I use, and I have not managed to work around it by using 'short-plural', 'short-plural-form', 'long-plural', or 'long-plural-form'.   Any help is appreciated. See below for an MWE and the result I get from that exact code.  \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report} \usepackage{acro} \DeclareAcronym{bc}{short =BC, long = boundary condition} \begin{document} Then, \acp{bc} are applied. \end{document}     Thank you very much!
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I have an acro first use that must be plural, but I am getting an erroneous "s" when I shouldn't be. I'm getting (sIMFs) when it should be (IMFs). See picture and code below. The problem only occurs on the first call and it does so for all my acronyms. Thanks in advance.   \documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report} \usepackage{acro} \DeclareAcronym{IMF}{     short = IMF,     long  = Intrinsic Mode Function,     class = abbrev}  \begin{document} \acp{IMF} \acresetall \ac{IMF} \acp{IMF} \acfp{IMF} \end{document}
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This is purely a curiosity, but I'm fascinated by mid-word pluralization, even if the word in question is a compound word.  For example, passersby or standersby.  No others have occurred to me. Can you provide other examples, or a link to a resource that enumerates them?  I'm particularly interested in compounds that do not include spaces or hyphens.
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I've read  and  I know that  1. The article is often used with initials that are pronounced letter by letter (initialisms).  2. The article is often NOT used with initials that are pronounced as a word (acronyms).  I used 'often' because I'm not sure about possible exceptions.  In my field of study (Operations Research), initials are frequently used to represent optimization problems (e.g., the TSP). I discussed this point with my university supervisor who makes comments on my reports (English is not his native language). He responded that:  "What I learned from [...] was that whenever we use (specific) acronyms, we don't use 'the' when they are within a sentence, and we use 'the' when a sentence starts with them. For instance,  (i) The HCP is an NP-Complete problem.  (ii) We developed a new algorithm to solve HCP."  HCP stands for the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem. It is really confusing me because I do not know when to use and when not to use the article. For example, on , the author Jane Watson writes:     Use a definite article with an initialism if the spelled out term begins with “the” but is not covered in the initialism.   which implies that I should use the article with "HCP". What do you think?
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While attempting to answer  @ProgramFox has been trying to come up with an example of a noun with no plural.   The best I've come up with is egotism and Judaism.  ()  Some of the contenders I've already shot down are air, water, and money.  (Airs, waters, and monies are all legitimate plurals.)  My question is, a) Do my two examples have actual plurals?  b) Are there any other non-ism nouns that don't have a plural?
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When dealing with abbreviations, should you parenthesize the abbreviation or its expansion? I have seen it both ways. Can anyone make a good case for preferring one style over the other?
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In the computer programming context, several long words are commonly abbreviated using the formula first letter, number of letters between, last letter.  Eg internationalization --> i18n  Is there a name for this technique of abbreviation?  Is there a name for the abbreviation so created?
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I always stumble when using abbreviations in a sentence, as they inherently contain a period in them. How do I use a comma or a semicolon after an abbreviation? How about a period?  E.g. (This is an example of my quandary)
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I am referencing a table containing an acronym entry that has not been mentioned in the text before. I would like to print the acronym short form in the table (the acronym is used multiple times in the table) and print the long form when the acronym is used in the text for the first time. Here is my MWE:  \documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside,fleqn]{scrbook} \usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel} % language listed last is default setting \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}  \usepackage{mhchem}  \usepackage[acronym,toc]{glossaries} \makeglossaries  \newacronym{LAr}{L\ce{Ar}}{Liquid Argon}  \begin{document}  some text ... \ref{SampleTable} ...  \begin{table}[!h] \centering \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} \hline &amp; &amp; \\ \hline \hline \gls{LAr} &amp; &amp; \\ \hline \gls{LAr} &amp; &amp; \\ \hline &amp; &amp; \\ \hline &amp; &amp; \\ \hline &amp; &amp; \\ \hline &amp; &amp; \\ \hline \end{tabular} \caption{Sample Caption} \label{SampleTable} \end{table}  .... some text ... \gls{LAr}  \end{document}
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\documentclass{report} \usepackage[acronym]{glossaries} \makeglossary \newacronym{svm}{SVM}{Support Vector Machine} \newacronym{wasn}{WASN}{Wireless Sensor Networks} \begin{document} \printglossaries \newpage using \gls{svm} blah blah \gls{wasn}blah blah.....\gls{svm} \end{document}   I am testing with above MWE. The acronyms are correctly displayed in the document body when compiled, but nothing gets printed where I need the List of Acronyms.  I am using TexMakerX as my IDE on Windows 7.  Once I compile the above code a .glo file is created but it is empty. I think this is the problem but I don't know why it is happening.
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When expanding an abbreviation in parentheses, sometimes the thing that was abbreviate was used in a possessive context.  Consider the following example:     If the Giant Ostrich Bomb's (GOB) fuse is too short, you may be too close when it goes off and you may get kicked in the face.   Is the above correct, or should it be rewritten this way instead:     If the Giant Ostrich Bomb (GOB)'s fuse is too short, you may be too close when it goes off and you may get kicked in the face.   If this is a matter of style, do any of the popular style manuals have a recommendation?
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Possible Duplicate:          What's the plural form of the acronym , short for proof of concept?     ...for his contributions to many POCs   or      ...for his contributions to many POC      is not a duplicate as it is focused on cases like "ATMs" where the expanded form "automated teller machines" ends in a noun with a regular plural form ending in "s." In "proof of concept," the noun is in the middle of the abbreviated phrase. If we pluralize the uncontracted phrase, we get "proofs of concept," which has an "s" in the middle rather than at the end. It's unclear from the linked answers how abbreviations with this structure should be pluralized. (POC, POCs, PsOC?)
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I  here on MSO today, but it was found to have been asked .  I'm not concerned by this (better to be found by more than one user) but, I noticed that the wording in the closure statement is factually incorrect:    No it doesn't have an answer - Not even a sniff of one!  This statement, logically, should be factually accurate and reflect the existence of answers and include singular/plural references to them - or at a minimum use language that covers both scenarios.  Edit: As a result of my question,  and the bug in question has been remedied, but this question still remains valid.
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When using zero as a quantifier, is it correct to use the singular form on the object of the quantifier, or the plural form?  It sounds confusing when I put it that way, but what I mean is: Which is correct?   Your password expires in 0 days. Your password expires in 0 day.   Essentially I suppose I'm asking, does "singular" mean "one" or "the opposite of more than one", as zero is not "plural" in the traditional "more than one" sense?  I'm pretty sure "days" sounds correct, but I can't be sure.
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Taking notes, I was going to write this:     therefore p′ is a shortest path.   But the topic is APSP which stands for "all pairs shortest paths" so I decided to just write SP instead and...  Is it written with a like this     therefore p′ is a SP   or with an like this (because in my head I would "read" the S)     therefore p′ is an SP
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As far as I know, a period is commonly used for an abbreviation (e.g., Feb., Mon., Inc.). But I can also see a slash in these cases: w/, w/o.  Is there any grammar rule for an abbreviation? or is latter case an exception?
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If you have something like:     Get the name(s) of all users.   Should name be singular or plural?  The way I see it, each user has only one name, so it could be singular, but you will be getting many names, one for each users, so it could also be plural. Anyone know what is the proper way?
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I know that if a word ends with an s then it should be made plural or possessive by use of an apostrophe with no extra s (e.g. "Thomas Harris' book was a riveting read." as opposed to "Gary Barlow's voice is so distracting.")  What about if the word ends with a z. For example, would it be Gomez' album or Gomez's album?