Re: "box"

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Must be tough. That sentence has on, the, and it in it. I suppose it could
be worse. You could be a member of the Knights Who Say "Ni."
-Wendy

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Dori Green <dorigreen00 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:

>
>
>
> I have avoided use of the word "box" ever since I had to fight with the
> "technical writer" about my editorial correction to his sentence "Lay the
> box on it's side."
>
> Of course there should be an apostrophe, he argued.  It's possessive, isn't
> it?
>
> We didn't even get into "lay" versus "lie" or even "set".
>
> I still encounter that same argument sometimes.  At least it's now from
> SMEs instead of the tech writer (who is now me and knows better).
>
> That one discussion left me with a permanent neurotic dislike of the entire
> sentence and every word in it  I guess that's now my problem.  Sigh.
>
> Dori Green
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