First, people sometimes spell plurals with an apostrophe.
The only plurals that are correctly spelled with apostrophes are some plurals
of letters. Examples: mind your p's and q's, PhD's (although this one
can be spelled without the apostrophe, I think).
I believe that the reason people might be confused about this is just one word: Levi's. People take that to be a plural but it is actually a possessive.
Second: Since we have--evidently acceptable--spellings such as Grammys, Emmys, etc. People forget the old rule for spelling words ending in y which I was taught in school: Change y to i and add -es. Thus pastries, not, as we see sometimes, pastrys (etc.).
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