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Old 21-April-2008, 06:06 PM
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"Typo" has been a word of its own for a very long time. Even were it not, wouldn't it look odd to see it written typo'? Since you don't, you don't use the apostrophe in a pluralization, either. When it was still "hip slang," lo these many years ago, there was a period after it, which was, as I recall, put at the end for a typo, as in "typos." and not "typo.s," which, as you see, looks ridiculous.

But, yes, "others' typos" is perfectly correct.
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