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English

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Opinions vary regarding the use of apostrophes when forming the plurals of letters of the alphabet. New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that “after letters an apostrophe is obligatory.” The 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.15, “To aid comprehension, lowercase letters form the plural with an apostrophe and an s”. The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.

From Egyptian

(ns, “tongue”).

⁠ ⁠ m

Erichsen, Wolja (1954), Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 263

ls m pl (singular l, feminine la, feminine plural las)

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⵍⵙ (ls, “to put on”), Zenaga yitʸša (“to wear”), Tetserret elš (“to wear”), Ghadames ăls (“to wear”), and Tamasheq ălsu (“to wear, to be covered”).

ls (intensive aorist lssa, verbal noun timlsit, Tifinagh spelling ⵍⵙ, Arabic spelling لس)

to wear, to dress, to be clothed
ما تلسيت غاسّانّ لّيغ ك مقّارغ؟
ma tlsit ġassann lliġ k mqqarġ?
what were you wearing when we met that day?

^ Marijn van Putten (2019), “Introducción al estudio diacrónico del bereber”, in José Juan Batista Rodríguez, editor, Estudios sobre toponimia canaria prehispánica (in Spanish), Academia Canaria De La Lengua, →ISBN, page 303

Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1533b