On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:02:02PM -0700, boblq wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 01:37 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > On 9/5/06, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sep 5, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > > > Then
> > > > there is the mail-order company Lands' End, which seems to have its
> > > > own apostrophe problem.
> > >
> > > I believe this may be a plural possessive, in which case this would
> > > be correct.
> >
> > It is my understanding that it was intended to be a singular
> > possessive Land's End but somebody slipped up. Similar to the case of
> > Lena Bryant who forgot how to spell her own name when establishing the
> > eponymous clothing store.
> >
> > carl
> > --
> > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Then there is the problem of family names like mine "La Quey."
>
> I get mail to "Mr. La" and "Mr. Quey", to "Mr. La Quey" and "Mr. Laquey"
>
> I have settled on just giving my name as "Laquey" if I know a
> computer will be involved.
>
> Bob La Quey
Lest we forget ...
... wives who (quite rightly IMHO) choose to keep their maiden name as
their last name (Gregory solved that one neatly). We are Lan Barnes and
Janet Lunn. It's not the mail to Janet Barnes or even the occasional
mail to Lan Lunn that bothers me, but who decided to address her as
Barnes Lunn (whole address line, I swear)?
Don't even start me on the permutations of "Lan."
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Lan Barnes
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast
It's funny that Bush and his clan whine about the cost of providing
social services to illegal aliens, but are willing to roll out the
humanitarian-speak when it comes to spending it on Iraqis who don't
even live here.
I can't for the life of me imagine what self-consistent underlying
philosophy could produce these two viewpoints, except "war is fun and
day labor is not."
- Todd Walton
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