Does "My A's' stems" sound natural?
I actually have two questions. Is it correct to use two apostrophes in the word A's'? As far as I know, the proper way to write the plural form of a single letter is adding 's and the second apostrophe is there in order to form the possessive, which is in this case only an apostrophe without adding -s because the noun is plural, right? However, it seems to be odd. I know I could also say "the stems of my A's" but I'm curious whether it's correct to use two apostrophes in this case or not.
My other question is, what do you call that part of the letter "A" that I'm talking about? I'm really not sure if it's its "stem" or not. It doesn't have an official name I suppose, but how would you refer to that part?

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I think there are two parts to the question.
Part 1. a's = two letters a's or more than two plural a's.
Part 2. to possesses something. = you put an apostrophe behind on some items but not others. 
The chancellors' budget etc. For other situations it is my friend's car etc. 
The a's neighbour is b
The a' b = ? the b belonging to a.
the a's' b = ? either the same as above or the two a's own b.

I think you are going to get varied answers and my advice is to forget English apostrophes and just write it out in plain English words.

Interesting question.

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