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sirimiri wrote:
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or HDTV's
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or "FAQ's"
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h00ligan wrote:
Two of those are correct as they are contracted acronyms.
Technically those are initialisms, not acronyms. There's better grammatical justification for them being written FAQs or HDTVs, in lieu of what's above.
Each component word is understood to be contracted, not just "TeleVisions" or "Questions".
Placing an apostrophe and the end of an initialism in this case would be an erroneous conversion to possession unless it were indeed indicative of possession.
For example: "the HDTV's tuner went on the fritz."
Then again, in British English acronyms and the like don't capitalize en masse like we do in our, ya know, loose-y goose-y Amairicuhn English. But they do capitalize initialisms, having usually dispensed with periods like we did quite some time again.
Like when our grandfathers might be disposed to write out "Ra.D.A.R.", decades ago. 
It's nearly moot by this point anyway, English is undergoing some some interesting changes given its worldwide spread and in part, becoming the de facto lingua franca of most multi-cultural human endeavors. In addition, confusing things like irregular verbs, past participles, possession, abbreviation, etc. are laid out for all to see and perhaps think "that's odd!"
Language is alive, and I make my fair share of screwups for sure.
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