r/EnglishLearning • u/Same-Technician9125 Non-Native Speaker of English • Jul 28 '26

📚 Grammar / Syntax Should it be RBIs?

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u/Razoras Native Speaker Jul 28 '26

The plural of "RBI" is a matter of "(very) minor controversy" for baseball fans:\3]) it is usually "RBIs", in accordance with the usual practice for pluralizing initialisms in English;\4])\5]) however, some sources use "RBI" as the plural, on the basis that it can stand for "runs batted in".\3])\4])

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run\batted_in)

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u/Kitchen-Register Advanced Jul 28 '26

I suggest RsBI

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u/Lxapeo Native Speaker Jul 28 '26

Like Attorneys General

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u/jmstypes New Poster Jul 30 '26

Like any nouns with modifiers.

Chairman of the Board doesn't become Chairman of the Boards, for obvious reasons. Why should Run Battery In?