• Stamets@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Well in English, when you want to pluralize something it depends on the type of word and its roots. But for acronyms and abbreviations you just slap an S on the end. Unless the word ends in an s in which case you slap es on the end. So presumably it would just be TARDISes.

    Consequently, that explanation also answers the second point.

  • Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    The jokester in me wants to say TARDIS → TARDES by analogy of penis → penes but the fact of the matter is that Time and Relative Dimensions in Space doesn’t really pluralize even when it isn’t abbreviated