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Subject:It[']s From:Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- PACCAR -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:29:05 -0700
Matt Ion said
>It's not "it(')s" specifically that people have the problem
>with, it's the whole apostrophe-s thing. It seems that more and more,
>an 's' is not allowed to exist at the end of a word without being
>broken loose by an apostrophe.
And don't forget the opposite phenomenon, as represented by "Mens wear"
departments.
How, in the same store, one can have a "Mens wear" and a "Ladie's wear"
section is beyond the capacity of my poor, compulsive brain to contemplate.
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Wolf Lahti wduby -at- paccar -dot- com endor -at- sos -dot- net
Anacortes, Washington
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