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- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!gtoal
- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Query: semiliterate quotation marks
- Message-ID: <C19yqJ.4JG@demon.co.uk>
- Sender: news@demon.co.uk
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <casseres-180193111944@missmolly.apple.com> <1993Jan19.000811.4537@netcom.com> <EMCOOP.93Jan22113626@bcars148.bnr.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:37:29 GMT
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- In article <EMCOOP.93Jan22113626@bcars148.bnr.ca> emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith) writes:
- :this reminds me of something i heard from someone once and i'd like
- :some sort of confirmation. i.e.: there is a very simple rule about
- :when the apostrophe is used - ONLY for contractions - keeping
- :in mind (and here's the part i'm worried about) that possessives
- :such as "Doug's" and "the dog's" were, once, long ago, "Doug his" and
- :"the dog its".
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- ARGH!!!!!!!!
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- Jeez, the short term memory on this group is getting as bad as a.f.u
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- Even if Mark finishes the FAQ file, he's going to have to post it daily :-(
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- G
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