Author Topic: apologies to LaRoche  (Read 19587 times)

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Offline Gleason2

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Re: apologies to LaRoche
« Reply #125: April 14, 2012, 07:12:41 PM »
Now is it RBI or RBIs? It's Runs Batted In, not Run Batted Ins. I'm not picking on you -- I had never thought about it until I got stuck on it typing out my post. I'm going to go with RsBI.

This whole thing is so stupid.  It's RBIs in my view.  I would argue that RBI is now, through usage, a word in and of itself, and should have the 's' at the end in the plural usage.  The purists out there who insist on saying 'three RBI' should then start saying that 4 'cop' responded to the emergency call, since cop is an acronym (for 'constable on partol').  Of course, no one does that because, through usage, cop is itself considered a noun on its own.