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Terry Casey

In article ,
says...

URL's is spelt URL's because its an acronym (loosely
speaking) of the phrase "Universal Resource Locators". The role
of the apostrophe in this case is to replace "ocators" which
if fully spelled out, would follow the final "L".

If that was true, URL would have to be written U'R'L' to
show that "niversal" & "esource" were missing as well as
"ocator(s)".

No abbreviation, including all the examples you have quoted
- WITHOUT intermediate apostrophes - have apostrophes,
whether they are singular or plural.

If you were taught anything to the contrary I suggest you
sue your teacher for malpractice.

Are you a grocer, by any chance, or just plain illiterate?

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Terry