For the last 12 days this list has been dominated by a discussion regarding English grammar, hardly on topic. Reading through them you might think that you were on the 'Never Mind the Full Stops' news group, rather than Ql-users!
Please, please get back on topic! Cheers Colin > 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 > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
