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Don’t use apostrophes in plurals

Don’t use an apostrophe (‘) when creating plurals. The following are all wrong:

  • I have five apple’s.
  • Shall we watch the new’s on TV?
  • I was born in the 1960’s.

Apostrophes are for possessives and short forms.