Mel:
>I would respectfully (I know my place) suggest that both
Mr. Strunk and Mr. White would be lynched if they attended a
"Burns's" Society meeting here in Burns country and tried to
pull that one.
The great Rabbie is Burns and his poetry is ALWAYS
referred to as the "Works of Robert Burns" or possibly
"Burns Poems" and "Burns Poetry"... Aficionados go to a
"Burns Supper", never a Burns's Supper...<
I don't see that Messrs. Strunk & White would have
anything to worry about. Neither the Burns Suppers nor the
Burns Society belong to Mr. Burns, so S&W's comments
regarding singular possessives are not applicable thereto.
I really do have to scotch that idea.
Terri
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