On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:52 PM, LuKreme wrote: > Might have asked this before. Is this right? > > Greengrocer's apostrophe > > Or is it wrong to put a correct apostrophe in a reference to > incorrect apostrophes? > > Greengrocers apostrophe's > > ?? > > :D
Ask Lynn Truss. Or read her book. My take is that the first example is the correct way to refer to incorrect usage and the second example is incorrect no matter how you try to parse it. - M -- Milo Velimirović La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W -- "The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is-second only to American political campaigns-the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time." Larry Laudan, Science and Relativism (1990) _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
