As the convention (I checked with all of them by phone) is that the
plural of cent is cent - as in fifty cent stamp - then the possessive
is cent's. No?
Sheepishly,
AndrewF
(er, and is the plural of penny - pennies or pence?)
On 24/11/2004, at 10:28 AM, Larry wrote:
> Hmmm... guess my education woulda had me reckoning that it was
> possessed by
> the cents themselves, so shoulda been cent's.
>
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> I'm impressed beyond belief Walt; that was without a doubt a wonderful
>> and perceptive use of plural possessive. Most people would not even
>> have realised that it required the possessive form ... ;-)
>> On 23 Nov 2004, at 17:27, Walt Wayman wrote:
>>> much as a freebie exercise, except for the 74 cents' (*) worth of
>>> postage per roll. :-)
>>> Walt
>>> (*) E,S&L people, take note: another appropriate usage of the plural
>>> possessive apostrophe
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