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- From: ca831@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven John Peterson)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Learning the ropes of "Ins and Outs"
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 18:14:52 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Please, help!!!!!!!
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- I had a disagreement with a fellow co-worker over how the
- phrase "ins and outs" should appear on a photo caption.
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- My preferred choice was "in's and out's," while he
- argued that since the words were neither possesive nor
- contractions the phrase should read "ins and outs."
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- I couldn't argue with his logic, but to me, the words
- ins and outs look very strange. Which is correct and
- why? (*sigh* I think I already know the answer....)
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