Acronym plurals

Do you need an apostrophe when you make an acronym plural?

Reader’s question: How does one make an acronym or initialism plural? Is ABCs or ABC’s correct?

Answer: Apostrophes have nothing to do with plurals, so you just add an ‘s’ (i.e. ABCs).

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