[thechat] Possessive or not?

Joel Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Thu Jul 18 17:10:01 CDT 2002


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> Oh Yeah. I've had colleagues with apostrophes in plurals in
> their *Word
> Dictionary* because it pissed them off that Word kept telling
> them they were wrong.
>
> I deleted every single one of them from every single dictionary.
>
> *That's* how much pain it caused me
>
> Cheers
> Martin

I have had plans for a small jazz ensemble for a long time. The first name I
came up with is still the front-runner:

Superfluous Apostrophe

Not 'cause anyone will want to say it or write it, but 'cause it will be
instantly recognizable as my life-long war cry.

joel



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