begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:18:18PM -0700: [snip] > A really common abuse of the apostrophe is to use it as a flag to > indicate "an S is coming".
Any promotional literature that I receive that has that particular error isn't ever looked at. > Thus the supermarket will put up signs for Apple's and Orange's. Then > there is the mail-order company Lands' End, which seems to have its > own apostrophe problem. Could be worse. Could be "Landz End"... > When in doubt, find a way to re-write the sentence so you don't have to do > that. Heh. That advice covers a whole host of errors, and can lead to a distinctive style. Which is rarely a bad thing. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
