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To: Nea Wood

My understanding is that your understanding is mistaken.

The nuns drilled the Oxford comma into my subconscious, as well as: “NO extra “S” for ANY pluralization of ANY word ending in “S”. A simple apostrophe is adequate for the literate.” Sister Anna, St. Anthony’s Elementary ca mid 1960’s.


72 posted on 07/22/2011 5:44:00 PM PDT by Don W (You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.)
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To: Don W

Then why is it Bridget Jones’s Diary and not Bridget Jones’ Diary?


73 posted on 07/22/2011 6:40:40 PM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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