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To: Mr. Mojo

Correct use of apostrophes is alien in many places. FR is not immune. It's one of my pet peeves too, but I usually overlook it but only because it's so rampant.

Funny story (although pathetic)-- at my last job I worked with a late-20-something airhead who was working on her PhD (forgot for what... irrelevant anyway). She was heading a smoking-cessation program at the time called "Mom's Quit Connection." I needed to refer to it for some reason so I asked her, "is the name of your program plural or possessive?" She looked at me with the blankest expression and I just let her go on doing it. Finally she said, "I'm not good at grammar." If that's PhD material these days-- then heaven help us.


181 posted on 06/29/2005 2:04:46 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (George Allen will decimate Hitlery in '08)
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To: Fudd Fan
Here are some fine examples:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

We should start a thread on the subject.

190 posted on 06/29/2005 2:28:27 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Fudd Fan

As a very wise man once told Me: "A 'P.H.D.' is just someone who knows ONE specific thing quite well."


198 posted on 06/29/2005 4:03:59 PM PDT by Utilizer (Some days you're the windshield. Some days you're the bug...)
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