http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayt2YNgKpBs

Fuck you
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You are an asshole.

Much love to you, brotha.

I mean, you dogged me at #5.6, can a brotha get some love?

I work for Fairfax/RuralPress and our style is very much anti the 90′s form

Canthz B,

No argument of the use of the u, it is the things that make us different that make things more interesting (though it can make my job harder when people have American spelling rather than Aussie set on their computers).

I am happy to conclude that wikipedia is generally legit on these types on things – especially given the number of punctuation pedants out there. That said, I did check out that link when I was checking out the differing apostrophe styles.

Big thumbs up to you both,
K

Let’s not get that can of worms opened up again! LOL

The wiki piece referenced this site (too lazy to build a link at this hour,late for my time zone) http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctuation/node21.html

I think that “uk” in the link means United Kingdom.
That may lend some strength to the veracity of the wikipedia account if such things are indeed meaningful for some.

As an Australian, I use that 90′s style, but that’s personal and probably reflects my age.

If I were writing for a magazine or something similar, I’d just have to use the in house style.

In the 1800′s, following the fashion of the times, the Australian Labor Party omitted the ‘u’ – so a lot of it comes down to the whims of the time. Likewise, the spaceship (shuttle?) Endeavour, kept the ‘u’ because it was named after Captain Cook’s ship. That’s Wikipedia again, though, but interesting, hey?

Have always loved the way American style omits the letter u from so many words.

Thanks Canthz B and park rose.

As stated on wikipedia (though obviously, given the source, this could be inaccurate):

“For groups of years, the apostrophe at the end cannot be regarded as necessary, since there is no possibility of misreading. For this reason, most authorities prefer 1960s to 1960′s (although the latter is noted by at least one source as acceptable in American usage), and 90s or ’90s to 90′s or ’90′s.”

“For groups of years, the apostrophe at the end cannot be regarded as necessary, since there is no possibility of misreading. For this reason, most authorities prefer 1960s to 1960′s[39] (although the latter is noted by at least one source as acceptable in American usage),[40] and 90s or ’90s to 90′s or ’90′s.

(A) This research was carried out in the 1970′s.”

For the record, I hate that I looked this up, but there it is.
Also (for the record), I’m an American, so that’s how I write.

90s and 80s is also correct. The apostrophe is used for ease of reading, in the same way that it is missing from street names and so on because it’s easier on the eye and probably easier when the sign is being made.

Again, it’s just stylistic, and consistency is the key.

I’d have gone with the possessive interpretation rather than a contraction, but that’s just my wont.

Luckily, I’m not alone in this type of usage:

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