[thechat] Possessive or not?

Quackamoe quackamoe at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 18 13:00:00 CDT 2002


--- Madhu Menon <webguru at vsnl.net> wrote:
> At 10:51 PM 7/18/2002, John Handelaar wrote:
> >[1] The Two Madhus!  It's either a comedy act, or
> >they recorded 'Knights in White Satin' :-)
>
> That reminds me. I'm bugged whenever someone uses
> the possessive form where
> they actually mean plural. So they use "CD's"
> instead of "CDs", "PC's"
> instead of "PCs", "CPU's" instead of "CPUs".
>
> Heck, no less a site than Digital Web recommends the
> wrong approach on its

Hmmm, if "PC's" is possessive and "PCs" is plural,
then
wouldn't "its" be plural and "it's" be possessive? ;)
English, gotta love it!

Do you remember the 1970's? I don't. I do remember the
1970s though.

Terry




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