and now we have a good use for the apostrophe. Otherwise we may get confused between Us and U's. I'm in the other half who might ROTFL (which has been heard as a spoken word 'roffle'). On 6 January 2012 14:07, <Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Geoffrey said: > >And texters create acronyms and initialisms, just as we have done for > centuries. Just as “bus”, “pram” and “phone” have become accepted >usage, > there is no logical reason why “U” could not come to be conventional usage > in, say, 2112. > > *... except that then we'd have the plural form as "U's" and half of this > list would drop off the twig in apoplexies.... :-) * > > *Peter M* > > Bob Trussler