It's that old plural/possessive or singular/possessive conundrum.
Not that copy editing takes any skill, of course, anyone can walk in off the
street and do it to professional level without any training ;)
On 15/06/07, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Christopher Woods wrote:
>> Write entertaining copy? Edit other people's copy to a high standard?
>
> sp - other peoples' copy, not other people's copy. Let's be thankful
you're
> a layout specialist, not a copy editor!
Spelling/grammar nazi insults already? Dear me. "other people's copy" is,
of
course, perfectly correct; Ian is editing the copy of other people. "other
peoples' copy" could, if one is lenient, be correct if you were referring
to
editing the copy of more than one group of people ("I can edit the copy of
the Dutch and French peoples to a high standard", perhaps), but I think
Ian
was probably thinking of the former.
[snip]
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Matthew | http://www.dracos.co.uk/
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