On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:14:19AM +0100, Tony Firshman wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > > Lau > > > > There is no missing apostrophe. The people's, yes, but in this case > > peoples is plural. > Eh? 'People' is plural. > Of course, people often use the awful plural 'persons'
Ah, but you can have "The peoples of the world" meaning the multiple sets of people contained within the Universe. Or, to be even more tortuous, you can have "something pertaining to multiple sets of people" and then you can use "peoples'." Don't you just love english grammar? Steve -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
