To write the phrase do's and don'ts, you need to create your own list of do's and don'ts. Do you, for example, stay consistent on apostrophe use, or do you instead insert an extra apostrophe for clarity?

You can see that we opt for the latter, but that's not what you prefer.

The vast majority of you who took last week's quiz like "dos and don'ts." We can relate. As longtime newsletter readers know, one of our pet peeves is when people unnecessarily add an apostrophe along with the "s" to make a word (or name) plural.

In the case of "do's and don'ts," though, we're OK with adding the apostrophe for clarity.

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