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Originally Posted by calf
"colon's" should be plural in this sentence, so it should read "colons"
Although, I'm not sure about the 80s/90s thing. I like 80's music. It's possessive, as in, belonging to a decade, no?
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In my technical writing class there was a presentation on it. 80s would be a shorter version of 1980s and it was definitely 1980s that was the rule with numbers.
http://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp
hahahaha... I did it right for semi colons, but not colons!