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Old Dec 15, 2016 | 10:18 am
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Originally Posted by fassy
Never got the 'sass' thingy. You probably also would never hear 'sebb', 'sapp' or 'ibbm'? SAS is a three letter acronym and usually you would spell them letter by letter, no?
No. This is not what "you" (=everyone else) usually does. There's a lot of things Germany has done and still does that "you" just don't do.

In Danish, the possessive (apostrophe or not) even changes based on whether the abbreviation is phonetically considered a word or not. For the Danes: if an abbreviation can't be spoken as a word, you use an apostrophe in front of the possessive -s.

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