Submitted by nicolejamison  •  January 20, 2005  Possessive with
acromyms ending in S  How do you properly punctuate an acromyn
such as ACS when you want to show it ACS’s or ACS’?  Comments
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Usage - well, specifically in answer to porsche's question, here
are a couple of examples:  1. AWS - Amazon Web Services. In a
book called Electric Beanstalk, they explain that this is 'one
of Amazon AWS's services'. They then use AWS's four times in the
book, although they seem to avoid it on their own website (  2.
AHS - Alberta Health Services - In an editorial, the Calgary
Herald write 'AHS’s new benchmarks must improve reporting, not
obscure it'  3. IMLS - Institute of Museum and Library Services
- on their own website they invite people to 'Submit Your Ideas
on IMLS's Strategic Plan'  These were the only organisations I
could find in the first five pages or so of Google which both
had Services in the name and used initialisms.  0 vote Vote!  • 
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