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Originally Posted by Engine
Note that I said 1980s, not 1980's. I hate seeing needless possessive apostrophes in numeric dates. Why do otherwise intelligent people default to this? They wouldn't write Nineteen Eightie's.
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It's not a possessive apostrophe, it's the same kind of plural apostrophe that would be used if I were to say "there are a lot of e's in your post". But I do agree that decade names look better without it and as far as I can tell from a little googling, both ways are correct.