Because otherwise if you have too many small letters in a row it stops looking like a plural and more like a misspelled word. Because capitalization differences you can make more sense of As but not so much as.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

As

That looks like an oddly capitalised "as"

That really gives the reason it's acceptable to use apostrophes when pluralising that sort of case

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because English is stupid

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not stupid. It's just the bastard child of Germany, Dutch, French, Celtic and Scandinavian and tries to pretend this mix of influences is cool and normal.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Victim blaming and ableism!

The French and Scandinavian bits were NOT consensual.

(Don't forget Latin btw)

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There are plenty of non Norman consensual French words and the Danes had as much a right to be there as the Angles and the Saxons did in kicking the celts out. Let's not even talk about if the anglo-Saxons had more legitimate claim than the norse-gaels.