Roy Lewallen wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:53:28 -0800, Richard Clark wrote:
. . .
73's

"Best Regardses"? ;-)

No, that's "Best Regards's". It's the possessive, not plural, form of
"Best Regards". I think the grammar is part of the same dialect as the
verb "destinate" (as in "I've just destinated"), but you'd have to ask
Richard about that -- he's the one with the English Lit degree.

My Webster's unabridged dictionary gives the following
examples of the correct way to pluralize numbers.

"figure 8's", "the 1890's", "the 20's"

73 is a number that stands for "Best Regards"

73's would be "Lots of Best Regards".
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