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One suggests "Ps and Qs" is short for "pleases" and "thank-yous", the latter syllables pronounced like the letter "Q". Another proposal is from the English pubs and taverns of the 17th century: bartenders would keep watch over the pints and quarts consumed by the patrons, telling them to "mind their Ps and Qs". [5]
1973: The logic of politeness; or, minding your P's and Q's. In: Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, ed. C. Corum, T. Cedric Smith-Stark, A. Weiser, pages 292–305. Chicago: Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago; 1975: Language and Woman's Place. ISBN 0-19-516757-0
The title needs to be changed. Wikipedia's style for article titles is sentence case, so neither p nor q should be capitalized. This title would properly be styled as follows, according to CMOS 7.59 (16th edition): Mind your p's and q's The title needs to be changed to 'Mind your Ps and Qs.'. RdCrestdBreegull 21:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
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Personally, I would never add an apostrophe to a plural abbreviation as I was taught that they should be avoided at all costs, unless referring to lower case letters, as in "Mind your p's and q's." Again, Ask Oxford states that the apostrophes are unnecessary if written in capitals ("Ps and Qs"), which to my mind is the preferable way of ...
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