Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Cee
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Lucas
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:12 PM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] Today's Gatornews from Miami Herald and
Palm Beach Post
I'm going to die my hair purple!
--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Cecilia <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Cecilia <[email protected]>
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] Today's Gatornews from Miami
Herald and Palm Beach Post
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 3:38 PM
Actually, Zeb, that apostrophe is misplaced and often is, even in the
writing of learned folks. If you consult a writing handbook, you will find
that a reference to the years 1960-1969 should be written "'60s", not "60's",
with the leading apostrophe there to denote the omission of the 1 and the 9.
The term is not possessive, and, therefore, the apostrophe between the 0 and
the s is incorrect.
That being said, it is considered correct to insert an apostrophe
when pluralizing a letter. It is correct to write, for example, "My son got 5
A's on his report card". That is done so that the reader will not confuse the
plural of "A" with the word "As".
Thank you for providing a way for me to kill 5 minutes of this
endless wait for kickoff...
Cee
----- Original Message -----
From: John Vega
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:42 PM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] Today's Gatornews from Miami
Herald and Palm Beach Post
The apostrophe that I will never understand is why the decade of
the Sixties is often written as "60's" as opposed to "60s."
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